Egotistical Spirituality

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Posted: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:00 am

Egotistical Spirituality Rick Crotts Baytown Sun |

I have noticed in my own life that any effort to grow spiritually which involves the acquisition of knowledge is always a mind trap. I find over and over that, when I think I have figured something out spiritually, the idea of knowing actually retards my spiritual growth. In other words, the inevitable big head associated with being smart enough to figure it out defeats any positive effect. Intellectual arrogance cannot enhance my spiritual well being.

My spiritual growth is mine to manage alone. The growth of others is not required to mimic mine, so my knowledge is largely irrelevant to someone else. The sharing of spiritual experience may be appropriate and even helpful, but as soon as I state my position as dogmatic truth I have overstepped the boundaries of propriety. I can believe. I can suggest, but I cannot know for someone else. They must come to believe and know for themselves.

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Nurturing spirituality

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St. Theresas College in its continuing celebration of the 80th year of its establishment launched the works of Dr. Dulce Jesus Lesugues-Baricuatro and Ms. Desiree L. Balota on September 7.

Leading with Heart & Soul, Fostering Workplace Spirituality is a very logical flowering from Dulces training and work. She has been a professor of Theology and Gender Studies and Leadership Formation. She is described as the Champion-Advocate of the STC Vision Mission and Values; heads the Christian Formation Program, facilitates recollections and seminar-workshops on leadership and values formation.

Dulce states that the handbook was inspired by the results of her research with women leaders from different organizations. She had tried to find out how these women had fostered workplace spirituality in their organizations.

The writer says her work is a response to the more demanding fast-paced, stressful, ambiguous, chaotic atmosphere employees have to cope with. She offers the book as a humble attempt to design a simple recipe that integrates rich Filipino cultural values and Christian values in fostering workplace spirituality in the Philippine context.

So she actually declares the following purposes of the book: to serve as a guide for leaders interested in developing workplace spirituality; to encourage leaders especially women leaders to be catalysts of change towards the transformation of society by starting with their workplaces; to highlight the positive aspects of Filipino values and the Christian values in fostering workplace spirituality; and to provide some points for leaders reflection on their leadership.

It is really to provide a glimpse of the book that I have included many quotes, and to focus on the fact that the guide brings out the voices of women leaders here in our city, thus affirming women, their practices in the workplace, and their great potential as sources of innovation and renewal for our communities.

The first section, Shepherding includes Value the Person; Get Close and Personal; and Build Bridges not Walls. Thoughts from the women leaders:

Architect Melva R. Java: Architects must understand human needs and human design and the social component of design in addition to technology.

Dr. Carmelita T. Dulangon: During lunchtime, I eat with my co-workers, so I can talk to them and I would know whats in their mind and heart.

The second main section, Transforming and Serving includes: Bring Out the Best, Listen to Learn and Empathize. From the women leaders:

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Politics, Spirituality How It Affects People And Governance

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Feature Article of Sunday, 22 September 2013

Columnist: Akwah, Nana

We should understand that either religion or spirituality and politics affects humans. A politics lacking spirituality is grossly polluted with corruption, cronyism and sycophancy. It produces and creates an unethical atmosphere of schemed situations of circumstances against the people. All these are due to if one does not recognize the individual or universal spirit, there is no reason for a person to be ethical. Politics without ethics and human values would result in untrustworthiness, crime and corruption. The goal of politics is to bring good governance and increase material, emotional and physical well-being and comfort of people. At the same time, the purpose of spirituality is to raise and encourage morality and human values. Politics and spirituality are inseparable bed-fellows and they need to go hand in hand. For good governance to produce the desired results, spirituality is necessary and essential. Only spirituality can provide, bring about the desire commitment, care and confidence required for good governance. People with Spiritual values live such manifestations, as these qualities are required absolutely and very essential for those in governance. A leader has to be a someone who sees everyone as being equal; someone, who transports, transmits and go along with the Truth; someone, who is transparent in all his actions and deeds; someone who is broad-minded and a visionary; and above all an embodiment of love and compassion. Also should be a person who abounds with empathy. It is a common knowledge that, religion has been the source and cause of many wars on this planet. However, religion and spirituality on the other hand have survived, only, for the reason of its patronage of and by the state. Whenever a society is seen as chaotic and lacks spiritual values it becomes apparently difficult to govern. Similarly it is also difficult for spirituality to survive if there is no official patronage. People who possess a degree Spirituality are honest and committed, as it is a necessary tool to create a crime-free society. State patronage makes spirituality spread quicker to all sections of society. While many wars are fought or had been fought in the name of religion, spirituality has given courage, confidence and commitment to people even in the toughest of times. Many saints, prophets, and others have been victimized due to lack of political patronage. For example, many believers of varied religious beliefs were persecuted by the state. This affected the morale of society and resulted in bad governance. It can be argued that 'Religion' has created conflict, but irreligious societies have created worse chaos and corruption in human history. Did not millions suffer in Russia, China and Cambodia in the name of freeing society of religious beliefs?

Today, both religion and politics need reform. Religion has to become more spiritual to allow freedom of worship and broader to encompass all the wisdom in the world and also politicians have to become more righteous and spiritual to have greater discernment. When spirituality and politics fails to coexist, then you have corrupt politicians and pseudo-religious leaders. Spirituality is deeply ingrained in Ghana's political settings; the present day religious kingpins are more of 'mafia' types. For most, are clothed in turpitude to associate with religion and more so being spiritual. In the times gone by, religion have guided and counseled rulers and in turn rulers have supported religious and spiritual leaders. These present day religious leaders do not appealed to people across the board because of their spiritual approach depravity. Spirituality brought freedom to the State Ghana in the past. The advent of both Christianity and Islam did bring about spirituality and gave a secular ethos to our world of politics and spirituality. Now as we progress as people, the need of the hour should be our ability to provide a prejudice-free political system. And also in a situation where vilification and demonization of people is relegated! A situation that harmonizes coexistence. Furthermore consensus can emerge only, when politicians learn to drop prejudices toward religion, social group and gender. Also to be able to drop prejudices, politicians need to broaden their sense of belongingness. This can occur only when they are free from constant worry and gain an understanding of spirituality with its accompanying importance and meaning. In concluding we must all acknowledge that the import of Politics is about caring for people primarily, and providing for their welfare! Whilst Spirituality gives you a broader vision of life, instructing in all that it share, care and nurture each other selflessly and with self-control, as its ultimate purpose.

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Space station supply ship delayed after computer problem

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Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press Published Sunday, September 22, 2013 7:26AM EDT Last Updated Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:24AM EDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A brand new commercial cargo ship making its orbital debut experienced trouble with a computer data link Sunday, and its arrival at the International Space Station was delayed at least two days.

The rendezvous was aborted less than six hours before the scheduled arrival of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Cygnus capsule, packed with 1,300 pounds of food and clothes for the space station crew.

The Virginia-based company said it is working on a software repair, but it will be at least two more days until another approach is attempted.

Orbital Sciences said the two orbiting vessels established direct contact early Sunday, four days after the Cygnus' launch from Virginia. But the Cygnus rejected some of the data, which interrupted the entire rendezvous. Until then, everything had been going well.

Because this is a test flight of the Cygnus, nothing valuable or urgent is on board. If necessary, it could keep orbiting the world for weeks, even months, before pulling up at the orbiting lab.

Orbital Sciences is the second private company to launch supplies to the space station. In 2012, the California-based SpaceX began accomplishing that job for NASA. The space agency is paying the two companies to deliver goods to the space station, in the absence of the now-retired space shuttles.

Three astronauts -- an American, Italian and Russian -- currently are aboard the orbiting outpost. On Wednesday, three more crew members will be launched from Kazakhstan. Orbital Sciences will have to work around that manned flight, delaying the Cygnus further if a Tuesday hookup is not feasible.

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