If I were to say, "The lives we all led were full of mistakes," there must be people who would immediately oppose me, saying, "How could you dare tell us our lives were full of mistakes?"
People would immediately counter me, saying things like, "I am leading my life the best I could," and/ or "I have done nothing morally wrong throughout my life." Some people may even say, "No one has led a better life than I have." Even if I told such people, "The very fact that you say or think such things means that your world of consciousness is full of darkness, which is why your life is full of mistakes," if the person's degree of progress made in this study has not yet reached the level needed to understand that is true, he/she will likely not understand the true meaning of my preceding statement.
Even if one were to say and think, "Yes, my life was full of mistakes. I'm even surprised that I've made it this far," if one leads his/her life based on the belief that the physical world is the real world, he/she would only be judging where in his/her life, he/she made a mistake, and where he/she made the right choice. However, making such judgements about one's life is not at all important. What requires attention, rather, is the fact that the person's basis of life is wrong. If one makes any kind of judgement based on the belief that the physical world is the real world, one will only evaluate his/her life based on some criteria relating to the physical world. What I would like to say to such people is, "Stop using your time and energy on making such meaningless efforts as evaluating your life based on the physical world, and come to the realization that there is a much more important thing in which you should be investing your time and energy."
I hear that there are people who tell stories about how foolish they found themselves as being; however, I believe they do not actually consider themselves as being foolish. First of all, I do not think such people even know what it means to be foolish. That is why when such people say they are stupid and foolish, the vibrations they send sound something along the lines as follows: "I may be stupid and foolish, but even so, I've been able to make the achievements I've made in my life." As long as one believes the physical world to be the real world, one will inevitably send such vibrations at such times.
That is not what I mean by "A life full of mistakes."
Rather, what I mean by "mistakes" is our belief that the physical world is the real world. When viewed from the world of consciousness, the belief that the physical world is the real world is full of darkness. As long as one leads his/her life based on the wrong premise, no matter how fluently one may speak and be able to get a few nods in agreement from his/her listener, the speaker would not be sending out positive vibrations.
We all used to be able to send out positive, nice, warm, and soft vibrations. However, once we came to have our physical bodies, we began to consider our physical bodies as being ourselves and become full of darkness. There is no such thing as right and wrong with darkness; being dark is always wrong. However, this is one of the aspects where practitioners seem to have difficulty with understanding. Being dark is always wrong. That is what I mean by saying, "The lives we all led were full of mistakes."