The media overwhelm us with information about the crisis, but all that information tells us nothing. We are only hit by when it affects us, when we heard that our money in the bank away, if we threaten to be fired, when I hear that my child is terminally ill. I have known people who by the news that they were terminally ill instantly changed. They were aware what life is and what matters.
At those times until we realize that life has given us a gift that befalls us. We have done nothing and have no right to. The paradox is that we nevertheless freely YES or NO say in this life. Our whole lives we have a responsibility to the reality of our lives to reject or accept with gratitude to all its consequences.
Our greatness is the freedom to do something great to benefit from the opportunities that life offers us, or to become addicted to the short-term results. It is about awareness and an understanding that goes deeper than intellectual knowledge and analysis. We can reality of our inner life as it were, flavors and taste. I like weather expert to know about the weather, but otherwise it is as I mentioned at the beach enjoying the sunset.
In a crisis, all familiar certainties rational way. It's a growth process lead us to a higher level where old certainties no longer provide guidance. That makes us anxious. There is a deepening of understanding and awareness needs of the intellectual level to the innermost level of our existence. It's like from the top of the mountain the winding paths where we got lost from a higher level to see.
This process of deepening spiritual crisis can occur if the security of our work and our lives disappear. But they can also be achieved through reflection by the question of why. Toyota proposes a new product or major problem five times the question "why are we doing this?" Thus divest them to a deeper meaning of the problem.
In her book "What's your excuse?" (2009) Esther Jacobs tells about this experience. "When the airplane window I looked out, I thought. Suppose that for some reason my last day would be? How would I want to spend? To my surprise I came to the conclusion that I would do exactly what I was doing this time. " She was aware of the gratuity of her life that she just had to accept. She had no money and no job but began her action that she Coins For Care around the introduction of the euro gathered in the remaining coins to charity. She was then aware of what is the meaning of her life with a smile and could overcome adversity.
Esther Jacobs, what's your excuse?, Bruna, 2009
| Kind regards, Paul de Blot Business professor of Spirituality Nyenrode Business Universiteit |  |
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Dear Paul,
Your newsletters always made me think.
And to this newsletter, I shall reply.
In another article I read: Life is a guided tour!
Many people dare not or do not have the guts to live their dreams and that is unfortunate. For it is never too late to live your dreams.
Questions like: What have you always wanted to do? Which you dream? are essential questions to answer.
No desire is as big or has the power to achieve. If you dare to listen to your heart and your feelings because that is your inner compass.
Each of us has that inner compass. Dare to feel and listen to your heart to make choices. They are after all the choices we make and not the chances we take determine our future.
Sincerely,
Christa Sinay
Christa @ Sinay: you just expressed Christa
Dear Mr. Blot,
So aptly written, thanks for that, all bull's-eye shot towards my current situation. Have a ninth resigned from the business after 25 years worked in target driven organization. About 6 integrations survived, interim measures with surprise beholding, personnel evasive, always nekuitstekend (and again deliberately hidden in the ground), upholding its own values and consider the central place of the customer as a benchmark. So now ... emotionally exhausted, happy and confident again otherwise healthy choices for life. Am 44 years and became a mother again (great!), And put my family at number one, try to network and to work for my own authenticity, its own beliefs based on fair management. I have now started their own business (sales based on open visor) and the crisis will not let me stop doing those things that I want. Investing now is enjoying, really feel, perspective and sometimes fail to understand how processes run. A glass ceiling does not exist, we women have choices for men are difficult choices to make. Husband and wife are jointly responsible, some gender roles are a fact, I live there to!
Everything is love, everything is one, everything is nothing. Hope more of you must read!
@: Tanja: Tanja Beautiful, keep it up
Paul Wise,
I am grateful that today I got the tip to look at your site ... ... I have come home. It feels like a warm welcome. I myself am trying to find a form that connects to a real movement / awareness to generate business. I am genuinely curious about what your vision is the language that the managers and directors in 2009 speak and understand this connection.
warm regards,
Paul
@ Paul van Nierop, the language is very different and the young people understand more than you think
I think it is always nice to hear again how many people something that seems very negative (eg losing a job) often afterwards as a major turning point in their lives.
I also agree with you that we can say yes or no, just not afraid to be two different things. Few people dare to say no and to lead lives that they really want to lead.
Thanks for your article does!
@ Derek, thanks for your confirmation Derek
Your words always come at the right time. How do you think? (-:
Warm
Harry Bartelds
@: Harry Bartelds: Thanks for your amazement, that has been a positive behavior that you are open to new ideas in the here and now
I would like to soon to speak face to face. Is that possible?
Keep up the good work!
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your wise words. Two months ago my employer dismiss me. Leave of me taken, as was so well defined. The special was that it felt like to me farewell. Farewell to what I've done up to that point. Farewell to blockades in the way you were to continue. Farewell to the old. It provided a way for the new. I recognized your words thus: Our greatness is the freedom to do something great advantage of the opportunities that life offers us. The growth here is the shedding of the old thinking in fixed structures, and paradigms. The old growth is difficult because they offer security stability. But by the dismissal you recognize that it is a false security. There is then indeed an awakening as an understanding that goes deeper than intellectual knowledge and analysis. Belief in yourself and the path for you. But also trust that, despite the resistance and misunderstanding that I will experience, you eventually grow in a direction much more certainty, which is not based on fixed structures but on your own strength. There is therefore no question of fear. Apparently, we as humans need every now and then they fall to break free from the present and thereby pave the way for the future.
Sincerely,
Peter Meijer
Meijers @ Peter: Peter, I understand your comment. I'm so glad you've come
Dear Paul,
Some time ago I had the pleasure to meet you personally make, and live every day as a fine remembrance of them once again my most sincere thanks.
Your letter of today with the message of Esther Jacobs for many people like a glove but many of us have the excuse that I did not know because we go through the world with our eyes half open. Rightly write not literally but that the first bomb to fall in ourselves to take our eyes completely open, and then we see the bright and beautiful colors of life.
Yellow is the color of the heat, the green color of safety, the red color of love, the purple color of repentance and finally the black color of mourning.
Why should the last color is often the ultimate color of our eyes open for all those other beautiful colors of life, it's so unfortunate that we do not all people of the world reach for example the color red because what is beautiful in than people you love and confidence so they are happy.
Everything in our lives is subordinated when the color black comes into our lives, laten we are currently thinking to those who face the Black, and all our fellow men, the warm colors of life uitstralen, as an example young and old.
Paul you were the fellow who gave me the colors back to life and let me now every day to enjoy this prachige colors in a world that still a lot of beautiful people, places and moments.
Thanks and write much of this impressive letters.
Greetings Cor.
Cor van der Linden @: Cor I'm glad I'm not being able to support. Many thanks for your support for me. As we strengthen and enrich each other we met. Thanks
Thank you Paul for your inspiring article. You express the wonderful weather. Life provides opportunities for inner growth. Setbacks are thus challenges to grow. Certainly not easy but the reward is worth the reward of a loving solid anchor on a soul level.
@ Vonny Nuijten: thanks for your response and understanding Vonny. Furthermore, much good
Paul Fine and positive message. For me it feels indeed true that the difficult moments in life that prevent us from deeper blessings and help. At the time I was in the middle is it is not fine, but afterwards, climbed up again, I am glad that I'm allowed to take.
Remko @ Wyatt: I'm glad you recognize Remko. The best
Thank you, dear Monsieur de Blot, for this beautiful article.
We all get thrown back on ourselves so that we end up in a crisis or depression. It is then not so as soon as possible behind us, but to wonder what this has to do for us and our lives.
We are then in the deeper layers of ourselves, our inner world must be addressed and not just our outside.
This time gives us many opportunities for us to ask what this has to do for us and for ourselves?
Sincerely,
Gert Pasman
@ Gert Pasman: I'm glad you've recognized Gert. Your comment has been enriching for me.
Thanks to these fine words at the beginning of a week!
@ Taco January to Gussinklo: my warmest thanks for your comment which I own is richer in January