Pre-birth book notes: Courageous Souls

Hi everyone, here are my notes for the book: "Courageous Souls," by Robert Schwartz

At first I didn't give this book a chance because it didn't make sense to me but I am glad I read through all of it. There was so much good I mean REALLY GOOD STUFF! that you could spend years trying to take it all in! And so I would like to share this with you.

(I put some things I liked in bold, pretty much everything is great stuff)

“Life is not a random haphazard occurrence filled with meaningless suffering, but rather a well-conceived plan rich with purpose.”

About choosing our life problems:
When we realize our problems are what we have chosen then it changes our perspective.

Picture a world where there is only light. How would you be able to appreciate light if you never experienced darkness? A balanced is obtained by experiencing both light and dark.

It is common for souls to put their learning aside to be of service to others. It is difficult to imagine that those who “mistreat” us are doing us a service. But it does involve sacrifice on their part.

Souls may play the “tormentor” doing so out of love and deferring their own learning so we may have the growth experiences we seek. Because we do not know another person’s pre-birth plan we cannot judge the way they live. What is to forgive when all perform the plan willingly?

Souls realize that negative thoughts, words, and actions must be balanced. Spirit guides applaud behind the veil, where every thought, emotion, and action are known, felt, and seen.

A soul may plan to experience alcoholism so that someone else gets the chance to express compassion.

Sometimes we learn through a life-opposites plan.

Gratitude to those who have most challenged us is a different perspective.

 “You know how we learn the hard way? This is one of those examples.”

Life challenges therefore may be accepted or resisted. We choose how we respond—with bitterness or compassion.

We  experience the fullness by the lack of love, so that we may understand self-love in all facets and directions.


About challenges/strengths:
Spirits place thoughts into our minds—thoughts that seem to be our own—to protect us from unwanted challenges. Our guides do everything they can to make sure our lives proceed as planned. Sometimes it means taking action, other times it means refraining from action. In all instances our guides are motivated by their love for us.

Out of all challenges chosen death of a loved one is the most universal. All of us will lose someone we care about.

We all spend some lifetimes repeating various behaviors before we finally realize they aren’t serving us and we move on.

Overcoming self-limiting beliefs such as their only being one right way to God is a lesson to learn.

Souls often select challenges that they have had some previous exposure.

Intensity is your choice.

I noticed that resistance intensifies suffering, while acceptance diffuses it.

See your problems as an opportunity.

Sometimes negativity is the road to wholeness. We all start somewhere.

By immersing herself in circumstances where she lacked power she developed internal power.

Some souls are more inclined than others to choose great challenges.

Some of the final challenges of life have to do with patience and endurance.

The indelible imprint we leave on other lives, is to come face-to-face with a great responsibility.

About life as a script:
Many de ja vu experiences are memories of pre-birth plans.

We know some of the people we meet here before we were born. You plan to locate others at certain time in your life.
We part ways with others when we have completed our plans with them.

Our souls are in constant communication with us—lovingly supplying us with yearnings and interests for the future.

Spirits can arrange coincidences for us to help us.

Events which are arranged by our angels and spirit guides keep us on the path we have planned. They bring us and keep us alive for the experiences we need for our spiritual evolution.

When a soul is meant to play a larger role and it is our advantage to place itself where there is the highest degree of world attention.

Life is a drama on earth’s stage and no one can be permanently harmed. Our lives are eternal, non-physical souls on a temporary stage.

We script some accidents before we incarnate and together we create others after we are here.

“My contract said that if I lived beyond the age of 25 I would stay. I had the choice.”

You may ascend to the place that holds all of your past, present, and future records. Simply ask your guide at the Akashic  Records library to materialize in its current form, and meditate on the changes you have formulated.  But fear not your angelic beings are always present to log the fleeting moments of beauty you find in your heart.

And so we script lives in which we forget our true identities, hopeful that the challenges we face will awaken us.

I see now a divine order to and in everything. I now see perfection. Lives unfolding just as we planned them. Such unfolding is evident not only in the challenges, but in the minute, insignificant aspects of life. Nothing happens by chance and all is in divine order.

About love/compassion/beauty:
Compassion was one of the most often mentioned lesson by Spirit, along with empathy and unconditional love for self and others.

The depth of a person’s empathy and compassion comes from their own dark night of the soul.

Love increases as we give it away. Because souls are love they expand as they love. When you receive love from others you give others a great gift—the opportunity to express love.

Desire to grow in self-love and self-acceptance.

The time it takes a soul to learn self-love is of no importance. The soul is always aware of its eternal nature.

A sweet and gentle soul…such is the inner beauty to which he awakens to in this lifetime. These qualities are prized in the spirit.
“You were a sensitive soul which is why you choose to isolate yourself in other lifetimes.”

Souls who are in the nonphysical provide assistance to us by sending us love and inspiration. They communicate in our dreams and touch us through our emotions when we are awake. Those who love us are with us always. The bonds of the heart are eternal.

“She was also to honor and respect the path of those around her, even if different from her own path. She has tested and expanded her compassion and also expanded her belief in the goodness of humans.”

You may enact changes for yourself and the good of all beings and lifting them to their highest good.

“Instead she chose to tell others about her struggle and accept their love. By rejecting bitterness she acquires an expansion of love.”

Your impact radiates through all dimensions. The light you live. The forgiveness you extend. The healing you create. And the love you remember are all felt in body and throughout spirit.

“There was no way I could deny any longer that I was a good and loving person who made a huge difference in the world.”
“It is the necessity of seeing oneself as you truly are,” the angel said.

"I have come to see life as inherently beautiful. I sense a sweetness in life. It is everywhere. Little is as it seems."

About Suicide/death:
The central theme of this book is that: we are love. This is our nature as eternal souls.

Spirits never abandon us during out grief. The mourner is surrounded by angels , guides, and the departed.  As we think of those who have returned to spirit, the energy of our thoughts calls to them. Often they attempt to speak to us. They are able to place thoughts and ideas in our minds—both when we are asleep and when we are awake.

The horrifying events you go through give others hope.

People should choose to put themselves in the most joyful loving space possible at the moment of death.

Loved ones can come back and create familiar scents to us.

There is no pass or fail in life. It is simply choosing our lessons.

Sometimes short lives can be chosen to accelerate a soul’s growth. Sometimes souls cannot make the decision whether to live or die.

Some people are willing to have another person in their life for whatever time they do have, if that other soul has chosen to leave sooner, because some souls want to get their lives done quick.  You are not given more than you can handle, but some souls choose to move more rapidly through the veils of conscious development in one lifetime.

One person was shown a picture of everyone important to him and then asked, “Do you want to continue or stay with them?”

We are not to blame for our loved ones deaths, because some fatal accidents are pre-birth exit points. For you who feel you have caused your loved ones death—know that they did not die without consent.

There is compassion and absence of judgment for those who commit suicide. At no point are you condemned. You need to complete the learning but those spirits feel only compassion in regard to the difficulties that can cause someone to end their life.
The only judgment is self-judgment. Our spirit guides point out where we could have shown greater compassion on our life reviews but even those remarks are made in a loving way.

If a soul does not forgive itself it is stuck. In the end you judge yourself. Forgiveness literally alters your DNA.

It is the essence of the person that matters.

Affections for souls who have died does not end. Learn to pierce the veil.

Some deaths have such a profound impact on her that other lessons in her blueprint were rendered unnecessary.

Her life chart had key end points. If she learned from her son’s death then X happens. If not than Y happens.

About Lessons/Learning:
Life is supposed to viewed as neutral—the pure non-judgment, which wise non-physical beings view all experiences.

The human body is simply a shell that you live many lifetimes, and each lifetime has the opportunity to live in grace and peace.

The personality is created by the higher self such as having a natural curiosity or willingness to move beyond pain. The personality is the illusion that is required on earth to learn lessons. Personalities often want too much detail because they are afraid of doing something wrong or missing something. There are many opportunities placed in front of you to pick and choose.
Each of us is a spark of consciousness in a larger unified consciousness.

Life is for personal growth and the acquisition of learning.

Without the negative you cannot be motivated to do the positive.

You may change the lessons you have chosen by increasing your vibrational frequency, learning to be compassionate.

You can love both the physical world and the spiritual world equally.

Those around—even complete strangers will support and provide information and guidance.

In past lives souls may have had difficulty accepting caring and tenderness from others, which is a lesson all must learn.

When you turn your pain into love you triumph.

Regardless of the nature and severity of our life challenges, growth and learning always result.

Some beings choose not to incarnate on earth because the human experience does not encompass every experience that is necessary for growth.

There are other lessons a person can learn in other dimensions. If you want to move onto higher dimensions, you design a life that would be the last in your cycle of reincarnation on the physical plane.

A soul in its last incarnation will design a life in which it passes on its accumulated wisdom and knowledge to others. ( and is a requirement for graduation) What is learned must be passed on to others be it one person or a book that reaches the whole world.

About healing:
As a person is healed and helps others to heal they will forge an inner stillness that contrasts markedly with the intense emotions that accompany death.

Embrace the pain and say, “I am going to cry until I have no more tears. Then cry some more to release the pain.”

Blocked energy creates disease.

Tears wash the soul.

You can will your body to heal.

Crying is the body’s natural way for clearing energetic density, tears keep energy flowing, which allows healing.

He designed a life in which he would be safe, supported, and nurtured. The soul seeks healing in subsquential incarnations.

Spirit guides say they wish we could look in the mirror and be able to be at peace.

An increase in one’s souls vibration lifts everyone elses up.

With courage he choose harsh colors in life to awaken the beauty of his soul.

Internalize the enormous amount of love of family and friends. The need to heal brings out creativity and courage. The wisdom will be hers forever.

Learning and healing from a life challenge raises the energy in your auric field.

False beliefs also require healing.

About self-esteem/happiness:

A goal for this lifetime is to learn emotional independence. It is the realization that one is responsible for creating his own  sense of happiness and well-being.

Build your self-esteem from within. You go back and forth from looking for reinforcement of others for who you are.

There will be times where you will wonder if you are good enough or if there is something wrong with you.

Thoughts/perception:
Souls incarnate on the physical plane to experience the perception of limitation.

We believe we are separate from spirit but we are not. Death is simply the brushing away of cobwebs that obscure your view.

We would strive to express love and only love in every moment, including our “private thoughts.”

Thoughts become reality if there is enough frequency and strength. The belief that one is not limited empowers thought.
Nothing is done that does not create a ripple effect through all dimensions.

All is perception. Even the most difficult things in life have profound seeds of  understanding and beauty.

Be realizing the unity of all, mankind moves up in its state of consciousness.