” … doing time in federal prison compels you to employ different approaches with the inmates around you and the prison staff. One of those approaches is called “Respect”. Over the years, I’ve encountered scenarios where an inmate has said disrespectful things to me, or a guard has ordered me to do something demeaning, like clean a bathroom toilet that has overflowed with feces, when it’s not my job to do it. I could’ve easily got hold of a knife and stab the inmate who disrespected me to show everyone around me I wasn’t a person to be messed with, or tell the guard to “Fuck off!” and end up in the Hole with the satisfaction that the bastard wasn’t going to humiliate me. But those approaches are counterintuitive as to who I am. I have my own set of rules from which I live by (even behind bars). Rules which state that whatever I negatively do unto others will eventually be done back unto me. It is a universal spiritual law, just like gravity. Whatever goes up must come down.

So when I’m offended, I simply turn the other cheek. Not in the sense of someone slapping me around, but in the perspective of allowing the other party to have its say so, and enjoy it, knowing full well that on the other hand, they are incurring what I call “karmic debt”.  And eventually, sooner or later, they will have to pay it back. Maybe in the same way they did it to me, or in an even worse manner.

When I am ordered by prison staff to clean up something repugnant, I go the extra mile to do it. Not for their sake, but for mine. This way, I accumulate “karmic reward”. Again, sooner or later, I’m rewarded in unexpected ways that I didn’t see coming. This has happened way too many times in my own personal life to discount what I am talking about.

So if you’re encountering difficult people on your life’s path that tend to disrespect you or order you to do something that’s not your responsibility to do, simply do it and let it be, knowing full well that life has a funny way to reward them back for the evil they’ve done unto you, and you for the good you’ve put forth … ” #freedwinrubis