Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it is yours for the entire period this time around
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in an informal school called "Life." In this school each day you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like these lessons or think they are 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 experiments that ultimately "work."
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 place than "here." When your "there" becomes a "here," you will simply obtain a new "there" which will, again, only 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. The answer is inside of 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 of this.