Instructions Given To Each One Of Us At Birth1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but itwill 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 willhave the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like thelessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a processof trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experimentsare as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works." (how many people forget this one!)4. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. A lesson will bepresented to you in various forms until you have learned it.Then you can go on to the next lesson.5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life thatdoes not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons tobe learned.6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" hasbecome a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" thatagain, looks better than "here."7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hatesomething about another person unless it reflects to yousomething you love or hate about yourself. (lesson for you, skinheads!) 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all thetools and resources you need; what you do with them is up toyou. The choice is yours.9. The answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questionslie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.10. You will forget all of this.