(Abdu’l-Baha, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 24)

Mr. Nickname: I’ve been reading through the comments here, some of them quite profound, but everything I’ve read is clear and simply stated. I have to say, I find your post typically Hubbardian, convoluted and non-sensical. Do I really need a bogus “admin scale” to get through my day with a modicum of happiness? Uh, no.

Without trying to tell you what to write, I most definitely would like to encourage you to give some thought to writing an autobiography or even just a story. I think you have a great story to tell and I sure would like to read it.

Just my opinion, but I’m fairly certain here is a book inside you and it is fighting to get out and about.

So, please do the world a favor and contemplate just what kind of book you would like to write. I think you could write a terrific book.

Thank you, Laurel, for sharing. My daughter relates the same. It is hard for me to understand. I will try harder to do so.

Agreed TJ.

People don’t agree on ethics either…

The only answer to our condition is a pleasure which comes not from the body but from self-knowledge. Happiness comes from knowing yourself.

For the true identity is a pure thing, a reflection of our genuine spiritual nature. The accumulations
of pain and the traumas of the human experience work like dust on the mirror. Like cleaning and polishing this mirror to reveal the undisturbed image of who we are… this is the practice that leads to contentment and the true state of being, the immediate experience of self, which is the realization of happiness. Knowing this is knowing:

You are the source.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali was born 900 years before me.

The ultimate ecstasy, al-Ghazali contends, is not found in any physical thing, but rather lies in discovering through personal experience one’s identity with the Ultimate Reality.

Scientology is the science of replacing your identity with… Scientology.
The choice you take is… yours.

Missed.
I’m afraid it is much worse than a reputation.

I do love how the Buddhists think
( in terms of what I understand )
And I think you got it quite right, that the philosophy is happiness oriented and focused on the practice of helping (not harming) others.