THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
1. You will 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. 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 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 is repeated until 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.
5. 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.
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 of you. You cannot love or
hate something 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 and resources you need. What you do with them
is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life's
questions lie inside you. All you need do is look,
listen and trust.
Cherie Carter-Scott
