The most INNOVATIVE and PROFOUND THOUGHT to get you thinking through the week.. volume number 2

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.

9th May 2011

Costs and Risks.

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy.

16th May 2011

In order to arrive.

In order to arrive at what you do not know you must go by the way which is the way of ignorance.

T.S Eliot.


23rd May 2011

Do the things you fear.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do...

Eleanor Roosevelt



30th May 2011


The work of our hearts

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge



6th June 2011.


Courage.


Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.


Ambrose Redmoon.




13th June 2011


Going with the flow


The great challenges of life is to BE and to EXPRESS. These are the lessons of "ZEN." Lose your spontaneity, your ability to sense and move with the flow of your deepest being, and you become stiff, numb, out of sync with life.


Taken from ZEN the art of living.



20th June 2011.


Different Drummer.


If a person doesn't keep pace with their companions perhaps it is because they hear a different drummer. Let them step to the music their hear, however measured or far away.


Henry David Thoreau.



27th June 2011


Fear of Rejection

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.


Shakespeare.



4th July 2011


Experience of being alive.

I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell.



11th July 2011


Courage

Like shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin




18th July 2011


To know what to do with it

This time, like all times, is a very good one. If we but know what to do with it.

Emerson



25th July 2011


Energy

Einstein said, "Everything is energy and that's all there is to it... It can
be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics."
What's at the root of all of your issues? ENERGY.
The question is, "How can I work with 'energy' to create dramatic
changes in my life?"

 Einstein

1st August 2011


In every heart.


Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Rumi.




8th August 2011.


Know who you are.


The first challenge is to know who you are and why you are here on this earth. Unless you are up to this challenge, you have no chance of realizing your life's work. You'll be left taking a reactive rather than a creative apporaoch to your work. The first roadblock is denial  - an unwillingness to deeply examine your life and to discover your unique visions, talents and gifts.


Zen and the art of Making a living.



15th August 2011.


Reluctantance.


There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.


Terence.

22nd August 2011.


The song of your life's work.

In listening for the song of your life's work, the notes to follow are your native compassion and bliss. We will call compassion the desire to act for the benefit of others- to eliminate their suffering or increase their happiness. Bliss we can call the transcendent of joy of consciousness, Life Ecstatic.


Zen the art of making a living. Laurnece G Boldt.