Saw this in a friend's kitchen over a decade ago & posted it here at
the time. IMHO it's well worth repeating, though...


                              RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

 1.     You will receive a body.
        You may like it or dislike 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 school called life.  In this
        school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons.  You
        may enjoy the lessons... or you may consider them irrelevant
        or stupid.  [and/or unnecessarily long & difficult! -- A.H.]

 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 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 not necessarily 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 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 to
        do is look, listen and trust.

 10.    You will forget all of the above when you have received your body.


                                                    Author Unknown




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