There are many versions of the "Rules for Being Human". I was introduced to them in 1982 by Ruth Anderson, one of my best teachers, and she and I decided to modify number 10.... just a little. Thirty years later, they have been showing up in recent conversations, as relevant as ever. May they shine a little light for you.
The Rules For Being Human
1.You will receive a body. You may like it or you may hate it, but it is yours to keep for this entire life time.
2.You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "life."
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.Lessons are repeated until they are 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's no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive it means there are lessons to be learned.
6."There" is no better place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7.Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something that you love or hate about yourself.
8.What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources that you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.Your answers lie within 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.... and you will remember.
The Rules For Being Human
1.You will receive a body. You may like it or you may hate it, but it is yours to keep for this entire life time.
2.You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "life."
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.Lessons are repeated until they are 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's no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive it means there are lessons to be learned.
6."There" is no better place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7.Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something that you love or hate about yourself.
8.What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources that you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9.Your answers lie within 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.... and you will remember.
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