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Finding the "GOOD' in these economic times:)
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3/17/2009 10:02 PM
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Reading the news and hearing the negativity around me lately has really been an eye opener in that Im thinking its just an 'opportunity' to get clear. Get more into my faith and NOT into the world (ie' what the world tells us to feel!)
If I listened to the news as gospel it would be a darn scary immobilizing time for me.
I wanted to ask all of you what you feel some of the GOOD is in this current economic 'downturn'?
I feel some of the good things are:
1) PEOPLE might learn to COME TOGETHER MORE AND REALIZE THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN MONEY AND FINANCIAL GAINS.
2) PEOPLE MIGHT SOMEHOW GET MORE INTO FAITH AND TURN TO GOD MORE THAN THEY DO.
3) PEOPLE MIGHT WORK WITH EACHOTHER MORE AND GET OUT OF THEIR OWN PRIVATE WORLDS OF ISOLATION.
4) sOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO USE MORE OF THEIR CREATIVITY TO GET JOBS NOW AND/OR START BUSINESS THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE DOne BEFORE.
5) PEOPLE MIGHT GET MORE "GRATEFUL" FOR WHAT THEY DO HAVE.:)
(If you have any more points to add to this list please do! Id love to hear them!).
This quote seems appropro to this subject:
'Ive never had a pain that didnt bear a blessing'.
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bernie
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RE: Finding the "GOOD' in these economic times:)
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3/23/2009 1:08 AM
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Xlent points! - instead of being solely or mainly 'homoeconomicus' we can focus more on the quality of life; too often this is lost sight of & in the process our existence becomes dehumanized & desacralized... Of course, our economy is extremely important, but to constantly become solely absorbed, harping on this ad nauseam; we thus are like so much ticker tape losing our essence, our true value & substance which surely transcends this. What do we profess as in 'profession'? - The almighty dollar, greediness, insecurity & doubt, or, perhaps, deeper meaning & values, too, i.e., existence or essence, freedom or robotism? So many, unfortunately, become merely inane bureaucrats - empty, vacuous, so much dry rot.
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RE: Finding the "GOOD' in these economic times:)
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3/23/2009 6:29 AM
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I am hoping for a slower, more caring pace of life with kindness and sharing at its' core.
I don't think technology is necessarily a bad thing...it's what we do with it that counts.
Jude
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RE: Finding the "GOOD' in these economic times:)
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3/23/2009 9:47 AM
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Yes, indeed, that's pretty much the essence...
How can one reconcile the demands of freedom and discipline in education? Countless mothers and teachers, in fact, do it, but no one can write down a solution. They do it by bringing into the situation a force that belongs to a higher level where opposites are transcended - the power of love.
Divergent problems - in family life, economics, politics, education, and so forth - as it were, force man to strain himself to a level above himself; they demand, and thus provoke the supply of, forces from a higher level, thus bringing love, beauty, goodness, and truth into our lives. It is only with the help of these higher forces that the opposites can be reconciled in the living situation.
(E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered)
(B[Being]-Values - metaneeds - over & above the basic needs as, without exception, the key to Self-actualization.) Human spirituality is a function of normal personality development in the unfolding of human potential 'self-actualisation'... depends on activation of motives for human behaviour or 'human needs'. Human needs include not only the obvious physiological needs for survival of the organism and the species but also the basic psychological 'ego needs' and the 'higher psychological needs' - the spiritual needs for growth or 'metaneeds'. The metaneeds function in the complete development of full humanisation... defined human spirituality by spiritual values of truth, beauty, justice, wisdom, universal love and so on. "How is growth accomplished? Through a series of changes. Without change there can be no development. And indeed, the most characteristic quality of life as we know it is change. Life is eternally changing, and the inevitable flow of life from one event or state to another is an eternal truth ." (Jack Forem "Transcendental Meditation" Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the Science of Creative Intelligence New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.,Inc. l974" page l19
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