If you have ever felt like you couldn't relate to religious people, then the next few weeks will be helpful to you. This should also help those religious people who feel obligated to argue or find fault with those people who don't
believe exactly as they do.
It's all about "being."
Now, I
will preface the following comments by reminding you that I'm a type A, high drive, personality. And for the better part of my life and ministry, I have tried to activate people into high gear, and high productivity. It was part of my DNA as a sales leader. But now I go about things differently.
Look around at all the self-help gurus, life coaches, and most churches and institutions. Their constant message is do more, do more, do more in order to get more, or "become" more.
Of course I see
tremendous value in productivity, but not busyness. Learning the difference is not as easy as it seems.
So much of our world believes that we "Are" what we "Do." This teaches us that we are defined by our jobs, or past successes or failings, or
that our actions create our being.
By contrast, the message of true spirituality is that our "being" is what actually produces our "doing."
As I show in my book "Getting Better When You Can't" , if we focus on the "doing" or the externals we never really solve our problems because we are living from the outside-in.
However, if we focus on our "Being" we get at the heart of all problems because we begin living
from the inside-out.
In the next few weeks, I will show you how all pursuits are essentially to the end of "Being" and how we all get derailed. I will also prove how this is ultimately a spiritual pursuit upon which we all embark. All people are spiritual, all things are spiritual. Everything
we do is of faith.
From being --> to being.
Any person that has figured this out has tapped into something that
really empowers their life. It's a faith that protects them from negative dispositions, and frees them toward their most productive and joyful life. From this overflow comes our purposeful activity and generosity to the world.
Being begets the doing. It is the flow of how every
molecule in the universe is designed. If we get this wrong we will live on an endless treadmill of trying to become something by our efforts. That is the religion of the distracted or lost self.
We must learn to "BE" and stop trying to "Become."
If we do, our becoming will always happen. If we don't our being never will.
May you find a moment everyday to just be. Then let your doing emerge from there.
