Rules for being human handed down from ancient Sanskrit
2025-03-12
- You will receive a body.
- You will learn lessons.
- There are no mistakes, only lessons.
- A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
- Learning lessons does not end.
- "There" is no better than "Here."
- Others are merely mirrors of you.
- What you make of your life is up to you.
- The answers lie inside you.
- Your answers lie inside you.
- You will forget all of this.
- You can remember it whenever you want.
These rules date back to circa 1500BC. They play in my head a lot, especially lately. Different ones at different times in my life, but they're usually in the background or foreground somewhere. They're great reminders of the human experience.
I will forget them again. And I will remember them again.