1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people 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.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.
by Cherie Carter-Scott
I disagree with point 7,
ReplyDeleteif I hate someone who murdered everyone id ever loved. I hope that your not suggesting that I murdered everyone I loved?
(hypothetically speaking, but my point still stands)
DWB
http://disgruntledwogbeast.blogspot.com/
Beloved Friend,
ReplyDelete"7. Other people 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."
In point number 7, if u look carefully and compare with ur example, that incident of murdering is something which you hate for yourself to commit.
As a result u will hate the act of murdering of another person > and that takes u to dislike that person who murders.
It is the action that deserve the disliking, not the person. And we will take sides according to our likeness of the action for ourselves. Thats how mirroring applies in the statement.
I remember the first time I came across this. I was in an airport, killing time by thumbing through a book called, "If Life is a Game, then These Are the Rules." I came to this page, and my eyes landed on number 4, and it was like being hit by a baseball bat. It was a difficult time in my life--I felt trapped and stuck. And there, God was saying to me, that the lessons which I wasn't learning, would be repeated until I did.
ReplyDeleteI put the book down immediately and walked out. But I never forgot it, and I think some of sank in, because I'm definitely learning different lessons now.
Thanks for sharing, MysticSaint!
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Oh, so true, so true!
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