ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³ ³ ³ RULES FOR BEING HUMAN ³ ³ ³ ³ 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be ³ ³ yours for the entire period this time around. ³ ³ ³ ³ 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal ³ ³ school called life. Each day in this school you will have the ³ ³ opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them ³ ³ irrelevant and stupid. ³ ³ ³ ³ 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial ³ ³ and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a ³ ³ part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works". ³ ³ ³ ³ 4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to ³ ³ you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have ³ ³ learned it you can go on to the next lesson. ³ ³ ³ ³ 5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does ³ ³ not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be ³ ³ learned. ³ ³ ³ ³ 6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become a ³ ³ "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again, look ³ ³ better than "here". ³ ³ ³ ³ 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something ³ ³ about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or ³ ³ hate about yourself. ³ ³ ³ ³ 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and ³ ³ resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice ³ ³ is yours. ³ ³ ³ ³ 9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions lie ³ ³ inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust. ³ ³ ³ ³ 10. You will forget all this... ³ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ