The school of life

Don Cassell (dcassell(AT)amdyne.net)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:39:44 -0500

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Maz,
 
I have always shared with my children, one in college and one who graduated a few years ago, a principle of life that helps me to accept the consequences of things that happen to us. It's simply the fact that we are always "in school" even after we graduate from institutions of formal learning. We not only learn lessons, we seldom get away without paying a price, or tuition, for what we learn. If we continue to "enroll" in the same "class" repeatedly without passing, we will continue to make those tuition payments until we learn the lesson.
 
Thanks for your list of rules.
 
Don from Maryland
       
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe & Marion De Sisto <grappi(AT)email.msn.com>
To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com <tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com>
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Aspartame.

Hi Everyone!

If there are any other people out there who are upset, worried, or
 
angered by the article I recently posted, please accept my sincere apologies.  Trust me to ruffle some feathers!!  I thought it would be of
interest, but apparently it's a ticking time bomb :-)  Oh well, to err is human...  And with that in mind, I thought the following might be timely.  Blessings, Maz.  
 
RULES FOR BEING HUMAN:
 
1. You will receive a body.  You may like it or hate it, but it is yours
for the entire time this time around. 
 
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 or stupid. 
 
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. 
 
4. A lesson is repeated until it is 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. 
 
5. Learning lessons 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. 
 
6. 'There' is not better than 'here.'  When your 'there' has become
'here' you will simply obtain another 'there' that will, again, look better than
'here.' 
 
7. Others are merely mirrors of you.  You cannot love or hate
something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. 
 
 
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. 
 
9. Your answers lie inside you.  The answers to life's questions lie
inside you.  All you need is to look, listen and trust. 
 
10. You will forget all this.
 
(First found on a refrigerator door, then copied many times over)