QUOTES
Instead
of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines
productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public
institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive
not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize
love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond
with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.
We
need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed,
as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel
it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations
and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their
personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these
millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go
hand in hand.
"Ultimately,
one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports
rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations.
Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through
which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others
around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us."
"Next
time you are at work, or at a social gathering, try the following exercise: Look
at every single person, one by one. See each one as embodiments of God, one of
God's many faces.
