“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
Albert Einstein
The 30 Rules
Rules of Thought
- improve each of these imperfect rules except this one
- inquire first about any idea if someone has already had an idea equal to or better
- think freely
- choose the best idea, not the most convenient
- thoughts are healthy if you keep alive the innate curiosity about the world
Rules of Reality
- reality is a small part of what your senses captures
- watch and think to yourself as you look and think of a tree, a house, a cloud
- thoughts and fantasies are theories
- if the actual experience always confirms a thought and does not contradict anything, that thought is not an illusion
- the objective reality exists in the extent to which people find meaning and agreement on it
Rules of Beauty
- respect and cultivate passion for the arts
- enhance the living environment you belong to
- seek a balance of form and substance, quantity and quality, space and time
- respect deeply and carefully your body and everything surrounding
- control and brighten your thoughts with a smile to the world
Rules of Relationship
- remember that love means to give for free
- respect the thoughts of others and criticize the illusions
- comply with rules shared with a deep sense of honesty and justice, and admitting your mistakes immediately
- celebrate with solemnity and joy and celebrate with your loved ones the most important moments in which life is renewed (both unions that the separations)
- transmit these rules always with your good example, sometimes with teaching and never under duress
Rules of Action
- let them do to you what you think is good and don’t let them do to you what you think is wrong
- make to the other what the other thinks is good and don’t make to the other what the other thinks is bad
- do the lesser evil is always an act of evil and laziness and not a good thing
- in everything we do try not to cause suffering to any living being
- in everything we do try to bring joy and prosperity to the whole
Rules of Life
- the purpose of your life is simply living the eternal present
- the meaning of your life depends on how you live it
- everyone decides their lives and everyone is responsible for its actions
- live in this present let growing in it the memory of the experience, because there is no future or past, only an eternal present changing
- your life is one and this one: live each moment with serenity, peace, wholeness, joy and wonder for you and all other living beings
