Wisdom comes in all sizes. There are small things that are easily understood and once a person has the idea will not lose it. So such things can be imparted simply through divine inspiration via an impulsed idea from Creator, or from the higher self more typically, that is a good suggestion and is intended to help awaken the recipient by presenting the idea for consideration, so they have an opportunity to see that perspective and hopefully will embrace it and incorporate it into their beliefs as being useful. We cannot force this to happen because that would be violating your free agency and free will, so by having you do something, we are now running your life and not you yourself. In the same way, a good idea, a smarter approach, a useful strategy to avoid a replaying of traumatic circumstances will have tremendous value if the person will embrace the divine guidance and can take it to heart. This does not always happen and the reason is because it might be a lesson the person has not learned previously and perhaps forgotten, or might not be seeing a connection with current circumstances because of an ongoing trauma and an ongoing disarray from the emotional severity of the consequences, and so on. Most things must be learned the hard way. That is not a penalty built into the system but simply acknowledges the reality of experiencing life, that doing something oneself is the best teacher. Information given to a person provides an idea about something but not its reality—the lesson will be theoretical and a superficial kind of information only.
Life experience provides a working knowledge because the information gained will be lived in actuality and will inevitably involve building inner beliefs along the way. Because one is witnessing a validation directly about how things truly are, information imparted in the abstract will not have as great an impact because there is not a strength of conviction and intention behind the incorporation of abstract knowledge. Hearing about something is not the same as having it impact you in a material way physically in your life circumstances. So hearing about something that might happen, is not given as great an importance by the mind compared to what one is living through and the conclusion one makes about it. Experience is the best teacher by far and there really is no effective substitute for an experience.
Effective divine inspiration can be a workaround and does not invalidate that precept, because what happens is that once guidance is impulsed within the mind of a person and they like the thought and embrace it, they will incorporate it into their life and it thereby becomes life experience because it is already something germane to ongoing events the person is living through. And while they might be in a recovery phase, it nonetheless is a part of the sequence of something real and will accordingly have greater meaning and impact, and so will the conclusions made about it and the decisions and planning for a possible future reoccurrence.
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