Why this was created
Through my life's journey I have recognized how central work is to the happiness of the individual and the character of any society. All too many see work as drudgery, the thing to do to pay the bills or the mad chase for material wealth and social status. I see how bored, alienated, under-challenged, or over-stressed so many are in their work. I see how their work and their unhappiness at work affect their families, friends and communities. I find that if I focus on a special thought throughout my busy week it often helps combat the negative issues that can surround me.
Each week I will publish an Innovative and Profound thought of the week. I would like your feed back, if you agree with it or not. Maybe you have a favourite thought that you would like to share. I would love to hear from you.
Monday, 31st January 2011
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Buddha
Monday, 7th February 2011
What each must seek in their life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell.
Monday 14th February 2011
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi.
Monday 21st February 2011
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.
P. D. Ouspensky.
28th of February 2011
Patience in everything you do
If you work in a fast-paced office with deadlines and demanding clients you will know how hard it can be to be patient. You have people yelling at you about one thing while you are on the phone with someone complaining about something else. It is easy to lose your cool.
Patience is the armour that protects us from destructive emotions. It is patience that stops us from becoming angry when something annoying happens. It is patience that stops us from becoming upset when we don’t get the reward or reaction that we’d hoped for.
Thomas H. Green.
7th March 2011
Poise of the mind
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
Sutta Nipata.
14th March 2011
Living on the edge.
What is in you, let it out. What you really want to do, do it. Don’t yield to doubt.
Love is the greatest religion, the greatest philosophy, the guiding light of the free person. Love is what it is all about.
Unknown
21st March 2011
Change.
It doesn’t happen all at once…You become. It takes a long time. (Change.)
Margery Williams.
28th March 201
Destiny.
4th April 2011
BUDDHIST ECONOMICS
By E. F. Schumacher
11th April 2011
Feed the Soul
Work is more than a matter of keeping busy all day. It must feed the soul as well.
By Laurence Boldt
18th April 2011
21st March 2011
Change.
It doesn’t happen all at once…You become. It takes a long time. (Change.)
Margery Williams.
28th March 201
Destiny.
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer.
4th April 2011
BUDDHIST ECONOMICS
The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence. Again, the consequences that flow from this view are endless. To organise work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence. Equally, to strive for leisure as an alternative to work would be considered a complete misunderstanding of one of the basic truths of human existence, namely that work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
By E. F. Schumacher
11th April 2011
Feed the Soul
Work is more than a matter of keeping busy all day. It must feed the soul as well.
By Laurence Boldt
18th April 2011
Right Livelihood
Earn a living that does not harm living things. Avoidance of work that causes suffering to others or that makes a decent, virtuous life impossible. Do not engage in any occupation that opposes or distracts one from the path. Love and serve our world through your work.
Buddhist thought.
25th April 2011
Rainbow will not wait.
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
Buddhist thought
2nd May 2011
Imagination.
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein.
25th April 2011
Rainbow will not wait.
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
Buddhist thought
2nd May 2011
Imagination.
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein.
Question...When you are at the point of discovery of your inner self, but you have lived your life for everyone else, how do you 'find' what you really want???
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteYou seek liberation. Just as a deer shot by a hunter retreats into solitude to heal itself so to should you retreat from all superfluous activity. At the very least, occasionally withdraw into solitude in order to practice. As a result, you may realize the one taste of reality and cut through the divisions created by attachment. Once you have gained this realization, you become as fearless and powerful as a snow lion. You have then achieved the state of confidence. At this point, your own self-interest is fulfilled.
In a nut shell.....
Set boundaries for your loved ones, time capsules where they know it is your time and don’t call you. If they do call you don’t answer them. When in solitude listen to the voice from within. It will give you direction. It will confirm what you already know but it will show you how to fulfil your deep inner most dreams. It is setting yourself free to find this solitude then the task for you is to be selfish and seek out and live these dreams you have.
Thomas H Green.