- from If Life is a Game, These are the Rules by Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D.
- Your will receive a body. You may like it, or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.
- You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full time informal school called life. Each day in this school you have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think they are irrelevant and stupid.
- There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and experimentation. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately works.
- 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 to the next lesson. (Application to Proceed… approved. =)~ Periodically, the lesson will be re-presented to see if you still remember it.
- Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain some lesson. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. If no lessons are being presented, it is likely that you are no longer alive.
- There is no better place than “here”. When your “there” has become “here”, you will simply acquire another “there” that will again look better than “here”.
- Others are simply mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
- What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you make of them is up to you; the choice is yours.
- Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you have to do is look, listen and trust. Oh, and then, of course, take action.
- You will forget all this until it is time for you to learn it all over again. That fact is itself a lesson. Now go out and play.
great post - thanks for sharing! i like the emphasis on conscious action…
Thanks so much for this one! I love the end!
I read this somewhere very, very recently. I think as recent as only last week! Wow! Seeing it again here is almost like too much of a coincidence..!!
I love it!
Roldan,
This are valuable snippets of wisdom put together. We know most of them and are in fact part of that guiding map in our minds. It is great then to read them in very organized form from great mind. We realize as we read them that they already are part of the lessons we’ve learned as we journey and attend the school of life. They now serve its purpose to affirm the formless map in our minds, to reassure us that we are taking the right path that we are taking in the right lessons that this life is feeding us.
We all go through different process of learning, to refinement, to becoming better, to becoming the best version of ourselves as we move forth. All the details along the way - negative or positive - are part of the process to shape us to become who we are today and who would become of us in the future.
Let me share with you an article I wrote that’s connected to this idea, please click link below:
http://jeques.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/taking-form/
This is how I’m learning my own lessons.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
those were great. i have never read them before. it is so true that others are just mirrors of you. people who vibrate on the same energy frequency that you do, and magnetise into your feild. I think everything around you works in this way. If you think about it your outer world is just your inner world reflected…
bridget
http://www.noroomfordinosaurs.wordpress.com
The author of Ten Rules for Being Human (it appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul) is Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D. who also wrote If Life is a Game, These are the Rules, copyright 1998, which details the rules.
Thanks for the author info, Kari! I had received it via email with no credit and so posted it as such, knowing that the name of the original author would show up eventually one way or another. I appreciate you sharing this information so that due credit can be given.
namaste, Roldan
Great list! Something like this would be awesome as a required reading for children in school.