Instrucctions for life in the new millenium
- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
- Follow the three Rs:
- Respect for self,
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions.
- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
- When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Spend some time alone every day.
- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
- A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
- In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
- Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
- Be gentle with the earth.
- Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
- Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Una supuesta falsa cadena de correo circuló hace unos años (allá por el 2001) por internet, atribuía las frases anteriores al Dalai Lama, cuando al parecer en realidad pertenecen a un libro llamado:
The “Instructions for Life” are a truncated version of a much longer list that worked its way around the Internet in 1999 in conjunction with an ASCII art representation of a “Nepalese Good Luck Tantra Totem” .
The longer list is itself yet another truncation of an even larger work, which in this case is Life’s Little Instruction Book, by Jackson Brown and H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Perhaps the Dalai Lama isn’t concerned with royalties (in a copyright sense), but we suspect Messrs. Brown are, so finding something in the public domain to pass around with the goal of improving people’s lives would probably be in order.
Estas frases te permiten reflexionar al estilo puro. Al estilo que a mí más me gusta. Tumbado bajo un árbol. Haciendo absolutamente nada. Puede tener variantes, pero lo básico es sentarte o tumbarte y no hacer absolutamente nada. Observar tu alrededor y pensar.
Yo soy un gran seguidor de este concepto.
Referencias:
- [Cuidado, página en flash] Magazine impreso del Mercado De Fuencarral. Número 2.
- [snopes.com | Urban Legends Reference Pages] Instructions for life
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