"Rules for Being Human"
1. You receive a body. You may like it or hate it but it will
be
yours for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons in a full-time informal school called
life.
Each day in this school, you will have the opportunity
to learn
some lessons. You may like the lessons or think
them irrelevant
and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of
trial
and error; experimentation. The "failed" experiments
are as much a
part of the process as the experiment that ultimately
"works".
4. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until it
is
learned. When you have learned it, you can go to
the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that
does
not contain its lessons. As long as you are alive,
there are
lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" has become
a
"here", you will simply obtain another "there" that
will, again,
look better than "here".
7. Others are merely mirrors to you. You cannot love or hate
some-
thing about another person unless it reflects to
you something
you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the
tools
you need. What you do with them is up to you. The
choice is yours.
9. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need
to do
is look, listen, and trust.