Sunday, June 28, 2009

Cool Advice


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 and 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 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 inside you. The answer to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.

11. Love has nothing to do with looks, but everything to do with time, trust, and interest.

12. Sometimes when you are angry you have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give you the right to be cruel.

13. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

14. The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference. Both love and hate require the same amount of passion to maintain.

15. You will forget all this.

(From Lists Galore - http://listsgalore.blogspot.com/)

1 comment:

Ricky Shambles said...

Brilliant. I like

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.

the most.

From my vault:

How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver. The diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and
his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.

-Rumi