The rules

Rule Number 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time round.

Rule Number 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.

Rule Number 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”.

Rule Number 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.

Rule Number 5. Learning 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.

Rule Number 6. “There” is no better than “here”. When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here”.

Rule Number 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.

Rule Number 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.

Rule Number 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.

Rule Number 10. You will forget this.

Rule Number 11. You can remember it whenever you want.