You will receive a body and what you do with it is up to you.

You will learn lessons: You will be enrolled in a full-time informal school called LIFE and every day that you are involved with LIFE you will have the opportunity to learn a lesson.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error. The key to that is experimentation.

A lesson is repeated until learned; You’ve got to keep going at it until you learn it and when you learn it you’ve got to go on to the next lesson.

Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain lessons.

There is no better than Here. When your there becomes here you obtain another there. You’re Here is always better than There because you are Here.

Others are merely mirrors of you. You can’t love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you.  When you become a human you will have all the resources you need but what you do with them is up to you.

Your answers lie inside you (metaphorically) and not anywhere else. You’ve got to look, listen and trust.

You will forget all this.

You can remember it whenever you want.

Perhaps you prefer the following version from the book “If Life is a Game, These are the Rules” by Cherie Carter-Scott.

“When you were born, you didn’t come with an owner’s manual; these guidelines make life work better:

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “Life on Planet Earth”. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. “Failures” are as much a part of the process as “success.”

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it — then you can go on to the next lesson.

5. If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.

6. You will know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.

7. “There” is no better than “here”. When your “there” becomes a “here” you will simply obtain another “there” that again looks better than “here.”

8. Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.

9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life — or someone else will.

10. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences, and people you attract — therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.

11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn’t help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.

12. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.

13. You will forget all this.

14. You can remember any time you wish.”

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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