This was in a page I received, a long time ago.

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1. YOU WILL RECEIVE A BODY. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period 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 and 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 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 NO BETTER THAN "HERE." When your "there" has become your "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 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. The choice is yours.

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.

10. YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS.

11. YOU CAN REMEMBER IT WHENEVER YOU WANT.

Comments

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

and you didn't like communion with god? odd. :) good thoughts though.

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Not necessarily didn't "like" it, just couldn't get into it...the first part seemed awfully preachy. :-)

Indeed, just found this while I was going through some papers.

[confusedjew.livejournal.com]

if you can get past the first part these ideas are actually in the book. you might like what it has to say.

btw i saw the box for the angel box set....i'm excited and giddy!

[ankita-1.livejournal.com]

#6 is all about me.

[rowa17.livejournal.com]

Do you know the source of this? I love it.

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The page I had did not have a source attributed to it..I read online a version that differed a little, but attributed it to a Chicken Soup for the Soul style book...will see if I can find it for you.