Rules for Being Human

[Anonymous]

This is something I read a long time ago that I have always liked. New-agey, but inspiring nonetheless:

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 not mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and 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 lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. There is no better place than here. When your there has become here, you will simply obtain another there that will again, look better than here. It isn’t.

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 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 this.

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[Anonymous]

Thanks, Hawk. That is awesome.

[Anonymous]

hawkgrrrl wrote:

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.

I especially liked that one. Hmmm… does that say something about me? hehe

[Anonymous]

I love that list. Then again, New Agey doesn’t put me off at all.

[Anonymous]

Tom Haws wrote:

I love that list. Then again, New Agey doesn’t put me off at all.

Same here. Great list.

HiJolly

[Anonymous]

Something jbm275 said on another thread today reminded me of #9 on this list, so I thought I’d bring it forward again.

[Anonymous]

Yes, there is something about “look, listen, and trust” that is very profound. Not “bash, speak out, and doubt other people’s words”.

I didn’t see that list until you brought it forward again. Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Loved it hawk, great list.

This one is actually my favorite I think

Quote:

There is no better place than here. When your there has become here, you will simply obtain another there that will again, look better than here. It isn’t.

It’s so true. Once, again the time is now, and here to find your bliss.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this.

Thank you for this post.

[Anonymous]

Good Bump Amy.

[Anonymous]

hawkgrrrl wrote:

10. You will forget all this.

So hawkgrrrl – is this true? Almost 10 years later have you forgotten about this?

[Anonymous]

hawkgrrrl wrote:

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.

This explains why it bothers me that it sometimes feels to me that many members are fake and just putting on a face. I am pained by having to do that myself.

Same can be said about judgementality and modesty norms.

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