TheBanyanTree: Fwd: personal revelations: ten things I have learned

[Tobie Shapiro]

Oh!  I get it!  If I "redirect" the e-mail to The Banyan Tree, it 
comes in as from the person who sent the post, not from me.  So you 
don't think I'm Scott Daniels, I'm sending this again under my own 
heading.  This is Tobie Shapiro, not Scott Daniels.  Funny thing I 
did.


April    2000006



	It's hard to smush ten aphorisms into an e-mail and hope they 
cover the ten most important things I've learned.  I've learned more 
that I'm older than when I was younger.  My list as a young woman 
would be very different: probably a lot more about mating. 
Nevertheless, here is some, and not all of what I've learned,  not in 
any particular order:

1.  It's always a good idea to know whose problem it is.

2.  Be aware and pay attention.  That goes further towards living a 
meaningful life than any other thing I can think of.

3.  Always have an alternative.

4.  Never underestimate the powers of self-deception.

5.  Compassion and love have saved humanity more than agression and muscle.

6.  Don't make any big decisions when you're heavy in love.

7.  Brains and a sense of humour will get you through most anything. 
One of them is not enough.  You must have both.

8.  What you do is unimportant, but it is very important that you do it.

9.  You might not know what you're talking about.  You can always be 
wrong, and accepting that gracefully, even enthusiastically is the 
mark of an elevated soul.

10. Your word should be gold, even in small matters.  Do what you say 
you're going to do.

	More comes to mind.  But I got to ten.  So I'm done for now.

	Love,

	Tobie
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Tobie Helene Shapiro
Berkeley, California   USA

tobie at shpilchas.net