#transcendentalthoughts

The person who always single-mindedly is concerned about his own happiness is not likely to achieve happiness; the person who takes the welfare of others to heart is.

There is meaning to life if you give it meaning. If you structure your life around things you value and things you enjoy, you make your thoughts and action purposive, and that is sufficient to endow them with meaning. A purposively structured life is a meaningful life.

Anxiety kills. It kills the spirit and the body. And we need to overcome it. We need something like inner psychic shock absorbers as we hit the potholes and speed bumps of life, a measure of inner peace that will allow us to be flexible and steady amid all those unexpected things that life throws at us. We all need to calm down.

Matters of the spirit are, and always should be, connected with concerns of truth, beauty, and goodness. Truth is the most resilient and lasting tie for connecting people and organizations, if the truth is always spoken in love.

The heart of spirituality is connectedness. The ultimate target of spiritual dimension is unity: connectedness, or intimate integration, between our thoughts and our actions, between our beliefs and emotions, between ourselves and others, between human beings and the rest of nature, between all of nature and nature's source.

Spirituality is all about depth, the depth beneath the surface, the meaning and significance that don't always meet the eye. It's about plugging into a source of personal energy and positive hope only to be found outside the cave. At work, it's the ability to see and do the real job at hand in a way that doesn't usually show up in the official job description. And it's the capacity to show other this extra depth that they might otherwise miss.

It always surprises me that otherwise intelligent people don't realize that if you treat people badly, it will eventually come back to you.

When people work in conditions of perceived unfairness and unkindness, they fall into a self-protective mode. Like turtles, they crawl into their shells and hide. They're not motivated to take positive risks, to dig deep inside to discover all their talents and bring those talents to bear in creative ways on the challenges of the corporate business.