Being Human

(from Sanskrit)

  1. YOU WILL GET A BODY

    2. It will be yours for your whole life - like it or not.

  2. YOU WILL LEARN LESSONS

    3. Life is a full-time, informal school. Each day you will have the opportunity to learn lessons that you may like or think irrelevant & stupid.

  3. A MISTAKE YOU MAKE ONCE IS A LESSON

    4. Growth is a process of trial-and-error and experimentation. Failed experiments help you learn as much as successful ones.

  4. A LESSON IS REPEATED UNTIL IT IS LEARNED

    5. Lessons are presented to you in various forms - until learned. Only then can you move-on to the next lesson.

  5. LEARNING LESSONS DOES NOT END

    6. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons - there are always lessons to be learned.

  6. “THERE” IS NO BETTER THAN “HERE”

    7. When “there” has become “here”, you will automatically obtain another “there” that will, again, look better than “here”.

  7. OTHERS ARE MIRRORS OF YOU

    8. You cannot hate or love something about someone else unless it reflects something you hate or love about yourself.

  8. WHAT YOU MAKE OF LIFE IS UP TO YOU

    9. You have all the tools and resources you need, what you do with them is your choice.

  9. ANSWERS LIE INSIDE YOU

    10. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you, all you have to do is look, listen and trust.

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