Each one of us has a different lesson (or set of lessons) to learn, a different way to learn them all (and it all) and a totally different ‘individually-sliced’ time-line in which to “do” it all.

What we think of as “mistakes” or “accomplishments” “failures” or “achievements” “tragedies” or “comedies” are in cosmic reality quite something else.

No one should feel bad about the “wrong” they have done in learning or the embarrassment they “experience” or the ‘worthlessness’ they sense or the pain and suffering etc and anon.  No one should make too much of the “mental” things that they do/might have done.  For each lesson and/or learning opportunity (be it seen as good or be it seen as bad) should be known as transcendent of all negativity and can be taken for the timely and necessary blessing it is.  Likewise the messenger who delivered the lesson or learning opportunity.  It is not needed to hate nor to resent nor to be negative at all.  (And it should be likewise axiomatic that no one on earth is qualified to make another “pay” for the bad he/she has done/caused. This is a matter for ‘Saint’ elsewhere).  For each messenger or agent of ‘causation’ (be he/her a “carrier pigeon” or be he/her a “stool pigeon”) is likewise a blessing who appears as if divinely bidden into your life at precise and scripted moments and/or durations for a purpose that is beyond the pain and/or pleasure of the experience itself but which carries cosmic and timeless implications, design and purpose.

That all said, no one should ever apply or impose standards or even expectations to another.

It is not fitting.  ‘Tis improper.

Pay close attention to what Jesus had to say about forgiveness, inclusion and acceptance versus setting standards for others, even though this particular discussion of his is in the strangest of languages and the oddest of idioms that he could have ever used.  Probably it was because the stakes are so high regarding the “wages” of setting standards and the consequences of imposing standards and to whom said ‘set’ standards actually apply.  And for good reason too, for isn’t it said elsewhere that a trap that any bird can see won’t catch a thing?  (Or something quite similar?)

It would be as ridiculous for karma to be only applicable for one span of what we “experience” as one life as it would be that the world will end at a specific time with a special bespoke knight of salvation making dramatic entrance from the sky within the short-to-medium term of any particular group of people however ‘loosely’ or ‘tightly’ bound such a group thinks or covenants [sic] they are.  (And each subsequent “group” who has assumed privileged status of end-times participation of themselves is hopelessly deluded and hopelessly arrogant to boot!)

All of that karma and learning and growing and kingdom of heaven stuff is going on in a time-scale of an approaching of infinity, a “usage” of time without space/time bounds in the working out to be of the manifestation of divine creation.  It is beyond our even needing patience as much as our needing a good attitude.  Don’t get caught up in the negativity of what you might “experience” or “feel”.  Live each eternal moment. Learn each lesson with the joy of keeping the spiritual eye on the physically invisible prize.  Divine manifestation of the purpose of creation is surely playing itself out in time obliterate!