RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
I found this the other day when I was cleaning out a bookcase and thought there was some real good things in it that are worth passing on, so here goes:
1. You will receive a body.
It will grow and change and some days you’ll like it and some days you’ll hate it, but peace within you depends on treating it as a friend. It is a gift from God so treasure it like any gift given to you. Take care of it and be grateful for what it does for you, (smell the flowers, see the beauty of nature etc). Not too many of us have a perfect body, but every body is a miracle so appreciate this miracle machine.
2. You will learn lessons.
Life is a full time informal school. Each day in this school lessons will be presented to you and each one will teach you something about life. Your growth and happiness depends on marking them, learning them, and remembering them. Each lesson can either make us better or bitter, it’s our choice.
3. Mistakes are the chief way in which you will learn lessons.
All of life is a series of experiments on the part of every person, at learning how to be loving, compassionate, and initiatory. Mistakes are inevitable, and even desirable, for they are not only the school where you learn the most, but they are also proof that you have not simply buried in the ground the talents God has given you.
4. You will continue to make the same mistakes over and over, until you have learned what it came to teach.
If your life isn’t going well. it is because a different behavior is required of you in some respect. You will be in that area like a phonograph needle stuck in a groove, until you hear the lesson, have marked it, learned it, and remembered it. Then harmaony will be restored to your life, intil the next lesson comes.
5. Learning never ends.
There is no point in life, at which you can say “I have arrived and now I can rest on my laurels,” life doesn’t work that way. If you are alive there are new lessons still to be learned. This is commonly called “the growth of the soul.”
6. “There” is not necessarily better than “here.”
It may be. But consider carefully that most of our problems are within ourselves and wherever we go there we are! Often, when your “there” has become your “here” lo! the thing you were trying to escape has come with you. The most important and desirable change is always within, not merely without. Though the soul, transformed, does love to walk in more beautiful meadows.
7. Others are different from you, but may also be mirrors of you.
There are exceptions, but as a general rule when we love or hate something about another person, it is because it reflects something we have within ourselves. It often takes some hard interior work to figure out what it is, but this can be very rewarding. There is no reward for trying to lead an unconscious life, where you never pay attention to why you’re doing what you’re doing.
8. What you make of your life is up to you!
God gave you the gifts, but what you do with them is completely up to you. He gave us a completely free will to live our life how ever we choose. But, remember this well: Fate (what is not within our control) can always be uplifted and transformed by our own attitude (what is within our control).
9. Much of the wisdom you are seeking is already inside you, waiting like a pearl to be released from its shell.
Do not devote your time seeking out some guru who will tell you what to do. Outside of
God, the person who has the most answers to your problems in right inside of you, for God has already given you the wisdom that you seek. Meditate and look within. You know much more than you think you do what you need to do next.
10. You will forget all this, of course.
Until you are ready to learn it (See number four,above.)
Copyright @ 1991 by Richard N. Bolies. Adapted from a famous document whose author is unknown.
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