DEATH--TO--BIRTH

THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN

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 

IT IS LEARNED.

a lesson will be presented to you in 

avrious 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 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 

yourself.