I'm sure many people have received this list in one form or another already... but here it is anyway:
- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
- Follow the three R’s: Respect for Self, Respect for Others, and 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.
- 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 second time.
- A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
- 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.
These quips of wisdom are claimed to have come from the Dalai Lama, but it seems hard to believe that he is the one telling us to "approach love and cooking with reckless abandon."
It's actually an urban legend and it is believed that the "Instructions for Life" are a shorter version of a much longer list that circulated around the Internet in 1999 as the "Nepalese Good Luck Tantra Modem." This longer list is also believed to be a truncation of a much larger work, "Life's Little Instruction Book" by Jackson Brown and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Actually, much of the Dalai Lama's actual work can be found here. His real quotes can also be found here.
Alrighty then... time to approach love and cooking with reckless abandon ;-)
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