"1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of your life 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 and experimentation. The 'failed' experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that untimately '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 it's lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. 'There' is no better than 'here'. When your 'there' becomes 'here', you will simply obtain another 'there' that will again look better than 'here.'

7. Others are simply mirrors to you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself."

(Here I emphasize the word reflect as -recognize- and add in that the ability to recognize beauty or disgust indicates that your mind has a reference point at which to make it's perception of the subject or issue at hand within it's very foundation.)

"8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you make of those tools is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life's questions are inside you. All you have to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. You will forget all this."

- From unknown original reference