"However mean your life, is meet it and live it. Do not shun it or call it hard names, it is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault finder will find fault in paradise.
Love your life, poor as it is, you may have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours even in the poor house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. The snow melts before it's door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind could live as contentedly there and have as cheering thoughts as in a palace.
If you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences. You are compelled to deal with the material that yealds the most starch, it is life near the bone where it is sweetest. You are defended from being a trifler, no man looses ever on a lower level by magnonimity on a higher.
Superfluous wealth can buy surerfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul."
Written in another time and place in language old and awkward - yet I find his meaning as profound today as ever. It is not how much we have but how much we are that dictates our experience of life. Today I look to gratitude for who I am and the inspirations that are freely given by spirit. I am inspired by this quote which I noted down in a diary in 1995 and find I am motivated to share these ideas in hope you too may be touched and find appreciation for yourself today. How rich are the experiences of this life no matter what form they take. Feel the vitality of the life in you today, the sweetest and simplest pleasures should not be overlooked, what are yours?
In and through all things Love is the message that Spirit would have us know; that we are loved, that we are love and that love is always the answer. Let the words you read here be a message for you today from the Universe that created you, perfect as you are.
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