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The Rules of Life
Apr. 11th, 2007 12:23 pmI was just going thru some old online journaling & came across this. I didn't take care at the time to note who sent it to me or where I found it, but it was good to re-read today:
01. You will recieve a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period, this time around.
02. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "Life". Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.
03. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "Failed" experiment is as much a part of the process as the experiment ultimately "works".
04. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
05. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
06. "There" is no better than "here". When "There" has become a "Here", you will simply obtain another "There" that will, again, look better than "Here".
07. Others are mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
08. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools or resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
09. The answers lie in you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
10. You will forget all this. Unless you consistantly stay focussed on the goals you have set for yourself, everything you've just read won't mean a thing.
01. You will recieve a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period, this time around.
02. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "Life". Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.
03. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "Failed" experiment is as much a part of the process as the experiment ultimately "works".
04. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
05. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
06. "There" is no better than "here". When "There" has become a "Here", you will simply obtain another "There" that will, again, look better than "Here".
07. Others are mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
08. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools or resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
09. The answers lie in you. The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
10. You will forget all this. Unless you consistantly stay focussed on the goals you have set for yourself, everything you've just read won't mean a thing.
