Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Our Spirit and Work

Our spirit is that which makes us alive.

Our work is the expression of our spirit's will to do two things:

Continue to live
Create, produce

Most, if not all, living beings work to continue living. Work is the activity we do to sustain our life. It's how our spirit sustains itself. It's what we do for food, water, and protection (clothing and shelter). It's how we take good care of our own spirit and other's spirits too.

When we are able and do not work and depend on others to care for for us, we fail at being responsible for ourselves. We make life harder for others by making them work for us. We thwart our spirit's own drive to sustain itself.

Some who have others do their work for them are called "leaders" and "business owners." Others are called "dependents", "lazy", or worse. There is little difference between the two. Both live off the labor of others.

We each have our own work to do to sustain ourselves and continue our lives. We do well when we do it.

Most, if not all, living beings also create and produce. Flowers create and produce blooms and aromas. Trees create and produce nuts and fruit. Spiders create webs and bees create hives and produce honey. 

We humans also create and produce: clothes, shoes, jewelry for our bodies, body paint, piercings, hair styles, houses, farms, machines, factories, music, dance, wood and stone carvings, paintings, poetry, stories, songs, and abundantly more. 

All living beings also naturally reproduce. 


All creativity, production and reproduction is the fruit of our work driven by our spirit.

Work is a natural activity. It's in-born. Our spirit compels  us to work. It drives us to sustain ourselves. It also drives us to create, produce, and reproduce.

Our work is a spiritual activity.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Whose Responsibility is Your Spirit?

I'm talking about the health and well-being of your spirit. Whose responsibility is it?

Responsible For

To be responsible for something is to be able to respond for it, to speak on its behalf.

Do you speak for your own spirit?

Have you relinquished that responsibility to others? 

Can anyone else speak on behalf of your spirit?

I alone speak for my spirit. My spirit is my responsibility. No one else can be responsible for my spirit.


Responsible To

However, being responsible to is a different matter.

To be responsible to is to be able to respond to another.

I am able to respond to my own spirit for how I treat it. When I treat my own spirit well, I respond accordingly. When I treat my own spirit badly, I respond accordingly.

I am also able to respond to you and every other living being for how I treat your spirit. When I treat your spirit well, you respond accordingly and I am able to respond back.

Likewise, when I treat your spirit badly, you respond accordingly and I am able to respond back.

We're not responsible for each other's spirit. However, we are responsible to each other for how we treat each other's spirit.


Holding Each Other Responsible

I am responsible to you and everyone else for the health and well-being both my own and your spirit.

You're responsible to me and everyone else for the health and well-being of both your spirit and everyone else's.

I will hold you responsible.

Will you hold me responsible?