Wednesday, May 03, 2006

A tidbit of what "it" could look like....

In discerning - attempting to, that is - what could spirituality in the workplace look like, which is the stage some of us are in, the following quote made itself 'present' several times during the last days. It is from Michael Lerner's web site, Lerner being a Rabbi, the person behind the publication "Tikkun", which addresses spiritual - and life - subjects. The quote: "#3. To seek a New Bottom Line in the Western world so that institutions get judged efficient, rational or productive not only to the extent that they maximize money or power, but also to the extent that they maximize love and caring, kindness and generosity, ethically and ecologically sensitive behavior, and enhance our capacities to respond to other human beings as manifestations of the sacred and inherently valuable and to be respected, and enhance our capacities to respond to the universe with awe, wonder and radical amazement at the grandeur of all that is."
This goal introduces a paradigm around relating to others not only in a way that abides with workplace regulations, whether 'labor' law or internal procedures or the internal culture, but goes above and beyond, virtually replicating the voice of multiple spiritual traditions and mystics, and that of the enlightened ones that gave rise to those paradigms through the history of humanity.
Can you just imagine...in the workplace?
What would need to change? What would need to happen to give these ideas a slight chance of gaining a foothold in the workplace? Would this thinking impact the workplace, and in what ways?

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