SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the seven different responses to work? Can you share a personal story that illustrates a deepening of your relationship to work? How can we go closer to the elder's experience in our relationship with work?
Love it. Have this book and will go look for the story. May we all meet *all* the answers (we surely have met a few of them so far!)
i see steps of enlightenment ..as we each pass thru these "stones" on our journey to god .. thru one or many lifetimes of service.. thank you Nipun for making sure this arrived in my inbox as sometimes i don't get the chance to come to the sites daily ..HUGS!
Depending on the task, our energy, our level of expertise, our passion, all seven "states of being" can be found in all of us. Because we are people (in our human condition), we all have to make time to . . . "kill time" . . . support our families . . . to create (be creative) . . . to help build something beautiful . . . to be part of "the bigger picture" (leaving a legacy) . . . to awaken others (in doing so, awaken self) . . . and to be and to work "One with God" (experiencing His power, influence and pull . . . by the power of His Holy Spirit).
We do these things for "the health and wellness of it" (physical, emotional and Spiritual).
Thank you Conrad and David! I very much appreciate your words! Keep writing.
I love you!
This passage for me highlights how the very same situation/ action/ event can be interpreted , perceived, experienced so differently by each person. We have the ability to chose how we want to 'see' things and how we want to 'be' in each situation. Thinking about how our simple actions can help others, and taking part in these activities with this consciousness in mind, will inevitably bring a satisfaction and fulfillment to activities that before may have just appeared to be a 'means to an end'.
By noticing my present experience I notice I am one with the universe and that whatever I do, what may be said about it is, the universe is universing. I do not consider it work to respond to articles that Somik sends weekly. I am simply being me. Rather than me being a drop in the ocean, I notice I am the ocean that is full of drops. This particular little drop who is spontaneously commenting on this article is noticing and being himself. I notice the self is much more connected than disconnected to everyone and everything ( the universe--Self). In that sense there is no I doing anything. It is no one going nowhere while the universe is universing. The universe is wise and the highest form of wisdom is when each drop his kind to each of the other drops. Thanks for the opportunity to respond. Warm and kind regards to everyone