The Rules for being Human
When you were born, you didn't come with an owner's manual..........
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the only thing you are sure to keep for the entire period this time around.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "Life on Earth". Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. "Failures" are as much a part of the process as "success."
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it -- then you can go on to the next lesson.
5. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.
6. You will know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" becomes a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that again looks better than "here."
8. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.
9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting.
10. You always get what you want. Your thoughts determine what energies, experiences, and people you attract -- therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see who you are. There are no victims, only students.
11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn't help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best. What your life is, 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.
12. Your answers lie inside you. Trust your heart, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.
13. You will forget all this.
14. You can remember any time you wish.
(I apologize for not knowing the source , I just happened upon it cleaning out my desk and thought how appropriate these thoughts are)
I don't believe in 'RULES' but I know each day is a lesson. Love and Light. kristyne
I have a copy of these rules without number 14 posted on my refrigerator. I cut it out of a church bulletin in 1992. It was identified only as "Found on a refrigerator in Toronto." Later I found them published in 'Chicken Soup for the Soul" and attributed to Cherie Carter-Scott as originator. She published them in "If Life is a Game, These are the Rules" in 1999.