A friend forwarded this to me via email. It was purportedly written by the Dalai Lama as his guidelines for 2008, but I am not so sure. Either way, the advice looks pretty good to me.
Instructions for Life
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, dont lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs:
>Respect for self,
>Respect for others
>Responsibility for all your actions.
4.Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5.Learn the rules so that you learn to break them properly.
6.Dont let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7.When you realize you have made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8.Spend some time alone every day.
9.Open your arms to change, but dont let go of your values.
10.Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11.Live a good, honorable life.Then when you get older and think back, you will be able to enjoy it a
second time.
12.A loving atmosphere in your home, is the foundation for a good life.
13.In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.Dont bring up the past.
14.Share your knowledge.It is a way to achieve immortality.
15.Be gentle with the earth.
16.Once a year, go someplace you have never been before.
17.Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18.Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to achieve it.
19.Approach cooking, dancing and music with reckless abandon.
Just because you proposed the question " purportedly written by ....." I being the QA person here did some digging:
"Neither this chain message nor its Instructions for Life originated with His Holiness. These are a truncated version of a much longer list that worked its way around the internet in 1999........."
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dalai.asp
I do whole heartedly agree, it's still GOOD STUFF!
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