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I found this in a notebook I wrote in when I was 16 or 17

 It doesn’t matter what you do or accomplish in life. It does not matter who you are or even if anyone knows you. If you are spiritually happy, if you learn from your experiences and use your knowledge to ensure your spiritual happiness, then that is all that matters. To be emotionally happy constantly is to be emotionally dull. You do not have to use the knowledge you gain from experience to ‘better’ your life. Better your spirit and all else will follow, and if it doesn’t appear so, it doesn’t matter. For your spiritual fullness is the most important thing.

Yes this simple little tidbit is another page out of my little notebook from when I was 16-17.

Every human deserves respect. The poorest, sikest, ugliest and dirtiest people deserve respect. No person, no matter what their ailment be, has at least one respectable part of their being and that, in itself, demands and deserves all the respect in the world.

I found this a notebook I wrote in when I was about 16 or 17

I was in my favorite coffeehouse talking to a nice couple the girl started complaining about whenever she is with her boyfriend that she is always wrong and he is always right. He said that she isn’t always wrong. She asked him to name one time when she was right. He was stumped. I intervened by stating that she was right by rolling her own cigarettes because they are more plentiful and cheaper than regular cigarettes. She informed me that they were his idea. I revealed to her that the fact that she accepted her wrong doing and changed it made her right. The look on both their faces changed to that of enlightenment.

I found this in a little notebook I wrote in when I was about 16 or 17.

The city has many roads leading to it. Like the city, Happiness has many ways of attainment. One way is acceptance. By accepting all, we find ourselves very comfortable with the world as a result we find ourselves to be happy. This is a true happiness for it can be accomplished at any time and only inside yourself. No one can take that from you or affect it without your permission.

Ever wonder why they call it spring cleaning or why it always happens in the spring? Is there something about the holidays, the end of the year wrap ups, where we start thinking about last year’s accomplishments and think to ourselves we can do more? Do we on some level feel that if we were just a bit more organized that we could be more productive?

Maybe, I believe that if you know where everything is and can find it quickly then you are organized. But if no one else can then maybe you aren’t organized. Surely there is a middle ground. When my Dad passed away he had many filing cabinets full of stuff. For the most part it was categorized but then we happened upon his tax papers, or should I say boxes. Boxes and boxes of tax papers, dating all the way back to the early 80’s. Yeah…an extreme.

Then there is me. If you asked me where my tax papers were I would point at my big black filing cabinet and say “in a folder labeled ‘2005 Taxes’ in the top drawer at the front” Why would I be able to say that? Several reasons. (more…)