Spirituality in workplace LO20189

John Zavacki (jzavacki@greenapple.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 05:49:11 -0500

Replying to LO20159 --

At finds a new area under the bell, but outside of the curve:
>Chief Creativity Officer
>Chief Perceptivity Officer
>Chief Spirituality Officer

SNIP
>My worry is the following. Will these three different officers honour and
>promote my wholeness rather than impairing it? Will three different
>officers be able to function in harmony?

SNIP of essentialities.....
>I can go on and on and on, each time swithing to a different facet of
>Systems Thinking. In fact, we do have to go on and on untill we have
>covered all angles, painting a picture as rich as possible. Finally, when
>we look at this rich picture, it all concerns the duality body&mind, the
>PERSON.

Thomas Merton used a paraphrase of the Trinity in teaching the usefulness of
the mantra:
"God is Love, God is Life, God is Light."
Love creates perceptions of other lives and holds them in the light of the
spirit. Spirituality may be a hologram containing creativity and
perceptivity. It may also be an engram drawing the monk ever farther into
his shell, ever farther from his race.

When I say spirituality is a subject which should not become an object, I
mean that is it a becoming as well as a being there. It is not a thing or
a thing in itself and it is not subject to universals, kernels, or
parsing.

John

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