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You Bring Your Soul to Work

This lens explores the place where our deep inner work and our everyday outer work meet...It offers resources and shares reflections about being still in the busy-ness of the workday. It looks at how a contemplative heart might journey through a work landscape marked by noise and distraction and considers a Whole and different way of approaching work. ____________________________________________________________

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Tending Soul/Bearing Fruit

a perspective on spirituality and work

Thomas Merton wrote, "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

It makes sense that the moments we spend at work--what we do, our interactions with others, our thoughts and motivations--plant something in deep in us, deep in our souls.

But the inner work we experience-that seed-planting, soul-tending work of the Presence Within-also flowers and bears fruit outside of us, in our relationships and our homes and our neighborhoods; in the work that we do to support ourselves, our families, our workplaces, and our communities.

In this way, we experience life as a kind of interior-exterior flow--like Breath moving in and out of our being. And as we move in the world aware of the Breath, we share peace, calm, authenticity, honesty, balance, hospitality, and love wherever we are--even in the most noisy, difficult, or demanding circumstances.

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Exploring Contemplative Spirituality

A Whole New Way to Work

What is Contemplative Spirituality?
A Shalem Senior Staff Monograph

A Better Way to Work

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walking in wonder

notes from a contemplative path

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Spirituality and Work on the Web

Google Searches
An article about Google's Search Inside Yourself course, which teaches mindfulness and emotional intelligence to employees.
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
"Promoting the emergence of a broad culture of contemplation in the academy by connecting a network of leading institutions and academics committed to the recovery and development of the contemplative dimension of teaching, learning and knowing."
Creating the Contemplative Organization: Lessons from the Field
Report by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Spirituality at Work
An organization of business professionals exploring the connection between soul and work
Contemplative Outreach Ltd.
"[A] spiritual network of individuals and small faith communities committed to living the contemplative dimension of the Gospel. The common desire for Divine transformation, primarily expressed through a commitment to a daily Centering Prayer practice, unites our international, interdenominational community."
Center for Courage and Renewal
"To nuture personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it."
The Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation
"Provides in-depth support for contemplative living and leadership-a way of being in the world that is prayerfully attentive and responsive to God's presence and guidance."

a reflection

peace.
it does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble
or hard work. it means to be in
the midst of those things and still
be calm in your heart.
(unknown)

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One woman, awakened to see that she is held by and filled by Presence, is learning, moment-by-moment, what it means to live one with the One.

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