RULES FOR BEING HUMAN
           
          1.   You will reeive 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  these  
              lessons or  think them irrelevant or stupid. It makes no     
              difference, you will learn lessons.
           
          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 a  "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 youself.
           
          8.  What you make of life is up to you.  You have all the  tools 
              and resources  that you need.  What you do withthem is up to 
              you.  The coice is YOURS.
            
          9.  The answers to life's questions lie inside of you.  All      
              you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
           
          10. You  will get what you ask for.  It may not be what you      
              wanted, but it will be what you asked for.

           
                       UPON ENTERING THIS LEVEL OF EXISTENCE,