Hope, Acceptance, and the Workplace

I have signed up for a meditation program that is being offered on the Mentors Channel (www.mentorschannel.com), titled “21 Days of Gratitude”.  The meditation that I chose to explore today is called Acceptance in the Workplace, led by John Perkins.   It was precisely what I needed to hear today.  Not so much regarding finding peace and acceptance in the workplace, but more so, I needed to hear the words spoken that there is hope for our planet and its people.  That there is hope for our planet and humanity as a whole if we all just start somewhere, in our day to day lives, with respecting each other and our individual purposes.  Some of what John spoke of in this meditation is that we are going through a revolution – a revolution in consciousness.  This is a new period in history, perhaps the greatest revolution humanity has ever experienced.

We are truly waking up to the way we live, to the idea that we must change the way we live, and the way we practice politics and economics.  John speaks of how much he travels, and that all around the world, people are waking up.  We need to understand that if we want for our children and grandchildren to inherit a healthy planet, we need to look to the benefits for all sentient beings.  Everyone must thrive.  We must take care of the entire planet.  We need to enter a new world.  A sustainable world is not about profits and profits and profits.  We are living on a very fragile space station – one that doesn’t have any shuttles.  We can’t just get off, and why should we or our children and grandchildren want to?  We need to take care of this place.

John goes on to speak of the importance of the workplace, and how this is where the majority of us spend most of our time and most of our energy.  It is so important to understand the importance of coming together, and joining our paths together in the process of creating a sustainable world, a spiritually fulfilling world, and allowing our passions and skills to come out.  Every one of us has skills and individual passions where we can direct our efforts and recognize that those who we work with also have passions and skills which can be inspired and empowered to move us forward to creating a world which we will be happy to pass along to our children and grandchildren.

I know I have mentioned this before, probably many times, but I adhere firmly to the idea of setting up a world that will sustain at least seven generations after our own.  I do not adhere to the idea that as only one person, I hold no sway toward what becomes of this world.  Rather, I maintain that each and every one of us, we are entirely one person – one person filled to the brim with hope, possibility, wisdom, and true magic.

Indeed, we are the change we wish to see in this world.

This meditation came with a Daily Insight:

“When we are busy doing what the universe created us to do, we have little time to try and control someone else’s actions.”

It also came with a Quote of the Day:

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.” –Gautama Buddha

…and a Daily Thought:

I focus on my life’s work and allow others to do what is right for them.