I just found a
website that has me very interested in exploring how people can make their spirituality a basis for doing their work. Not only is the information well-written and comprehensive, it is intended to be shared and distributed. I guess you wouldn't expect anything different from an organization called Global Dharma.
I was reading along from one of the publications about how some people think that spirituality should not be in the workplace. Hmmm. If spirituality is a core part of a person, how could it NOT be a part of their work?
In one place there is a text about The Pathways of Spiritual Growth that discusses work as Selfless Service, as Worship, and as Oneness with Divinity. I thought about how each of those pathways is a road to applying Spirituality in the Real World. Far from segregating work and Spirituality, they must be combined for either of them to have any real value.
I realized another conflict that I had been trying to sort out:
Paganism (to *me*; YMMV) is about creating, practicing, manifesting, and applying.
Fundamentalist Christianity (to *me*; YMMV) seems to be about recruiting, controlling, and examining other people's beliefs and behaviors.
Well, yeah; I think we should keep *that* out of the workplace!
And I realized that this is a struggle between Religion and Spirituality. One of those should not be in the workplace; one of them must be.
I look back on all the students and colleagues that I regard as effective and compassionate people, and I realize that they have a dimension that does not come from outside. It is where they begin, and how they proceed. It cannot be taught, althought it can be facilitated, modeled, and nurtured.
I can only hope that along the way I facilitated and nurtured Spirituality in others in the process of teaching and instructing.
Bright Blessings,
Spiral Crone
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