I believe that every person we meet this life, for any length of time is from the past anyhow. That is what the Master's have said. We are just given a fresh start to make things better this time around or build on what we have worked on previously. We can't control the response of others but we can be kind from our end.
Isn't it too much to say that we already met
'every person we meet in this life'? I mean, you make it sound as if there is no room for new meetings.
Notice i said 'for any length of time'. I remember Anandamoy saying 'when you see people together for a period of time it is not by coincidence but something they have put much work into from life to life.' Regardless of the relationship. Do you have a different insight? I do not claim to be an expert on this. I recall various Buddhist texts saying that we have lived so many life times that every person we have come in contact with is someone we have seen before. i suppose it would depend somewhat on how new of a soul we were to being in the human drama as opposed to being in the animal kingdom. I doubt that new souls would spend very much time with us since they are on a long adventure... ours is getting more and more repetitive in the human drama with insights into still higher dimensions from the astral and causal worlds. Yet there is plenty of open terrain to explore in shuttling between the terrestrial and celestial realms.
