Rules

1) YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY.

You may like it or hate it,
but it will be yours
for the entire period of 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 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 "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 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 to do is look, listen, and trust.

10) YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.

by Cherie Carter-Scott