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Justas sao todas as palavras da minha boca; nao ha nelas nenhuma coisa tortuosa nem perversa. Todas elas sao retas para o que bem as entende, e justas para os que acham o conhecimento. Aceitai antes a minha correcao, e nao a prata; e o conhecimento, antes do que o ouro escolhido. Porque melhor e a sabedoria do que as joias; e de tudo o que se deseja nada se pode comparar com ela. Eu, a sabedoria, habito com a prudencia, e possuo o conhecimento e a discricao. O temor do Senhor e odiar o mal; a soberba, e a arrogancia, e o mau caminho, e a boca perversa, eu os odeio. Meu e o conselho, e a verdadeira sabedoria; eu sou o entendimento; minha e a fortaleza. Por mim reinam os reis, e os principes decretam o que justo. Por mim governam os principes e os nobres, sim, todos os juizes da terra. Eu amo aos que me amam, e os que diligentemente me buscam me acharao. Riquezas e honra estao comigo; sim, riquezas duraveis e justica. Melhor e o meu fruto do que o ouro, sim, do que o ouro refinado; e a minha renda melhor do que a prata escolhida. Ando pelo caminho da retidao, no meio das veredas da justica, dotando de bens permanentes os que me amam, e enchendo os seus tesouros. O Senhor me criou como a primeira das suas obras, o principio dos seus feitos mais antigos. Desde a eternidade fui constituida, desde o principio, antes de existir a terra. Antes de haver abismos, fui gerada, e antes ainda de haver fontes cheias d`agua. Antes que os montes fossem firmados, antes dos outeiros eu nasci, quando ele ainda nao tinha feito a terra com seus campos, nem sequer o principio do po do mundo. Quando ele preparava os ceus, ai estava eu; quando tracava um circulo sobre a face do abismo, quando estabelecia o firmamento em cima, quando se firmavam as fontes do abismo, quando ele fixava ao mar o seu termo, para que as aguas nao traspassassem o seu mando, quando tracava os fundamentos da terra, entao eu estava ao seu lado como arquiteto; e era cada dia as suas delicias, alegrando-me perante ele em todo o tempo; folgando no seu mundo habitavel, e achando as minhas delicias com os filhos dos homens. Agora, pois, filhos, ouvi-me; porque felizes sao os que guardam os meus caminhos. Ouvi a correcao, e sede sabios; e nao a rejeiteis. Feliz e o homem que me da ouvidos, velando cada dia as minhas entradas, esperando junto as ombreiras da minha porta. Porque o que me achar achara a vida, e alcancara o favor do Senhor. Mas o que pecar contra mim fara mal a sua propria alma; todos os que me odeiam amam a morte.
things. Theres the whole question about what itmeans to be a fully functioning human being. Theres the question of living withmeaning and passion, of enjoying life, of discovering your potentials, of being inlove, of contributing, and of making a difference.While Ive written other books on self-actualization, this is the first one that I havewritten as a practical guide to enable you to actualize your potentials and pointyou in the direction of your ultimate self-actualization. I have written this bookfor anyone looking for living a more real and more full-of-meaning life. I want tooffer something that empowers you to experience a robust sense of vitality. Ifyoure not ready for that and for all it entails, it would be best to wait.Wait? Why? Because this book will otherwise awaken and disturb, it willchallenge and provoke, and it will ruin any delusion of smug satisfaction withconventional life. With this book I want to jar you from your comfort zone. Somy objective is not to comfort, but to induce an exciting restlessness. I want todisturb. I want to disturb your conventional thinking and to invite you to expandyour consciousness, to see new vistas and possibilities. All of this will challengethe traditional ways we sleep through life.Has it done that for me? You bet it has. As I have researched and written thisbook, my own peace and tranquility has been disturbed. How? Mostly, I have-7-discovered how small I have been thinking, and how safe I have been playing life.So in the process I have been awakened in places where I had been slumbering andmy potentials undisturbed. As this reinitiated new searches in my psyche, it hasunleashed some new areas of growth that Ill share in the coming chapters.In unleashing your potentials to actualize your best, I will be inviting you intobeing before doing and having. This turns everything upsidedown from the waymost of us direct our lives. Typically we think about what we want to have, thenfigure out what we have to do to achieve what we want and then adjust ourselvesin how we have to be. Or, we may find that we are able to do certain things andso go for a ride doing what we can. This leads then to having certain things. Wethen end up being according to the roles and games required by those activities.The Self-Actualization Psychology I offer here reverses that order. Instead ofdoing or having setting the pace, this journey starts with doing. It starts with yourexploration of your inner gifts and strengths. You search for the potentials andpassions within yourself first what and who you want to be. What seeds ofpotentials are within? What passions have, or could, emerge from our deepest coreexpressing your deepest and highest essence. What way of being in the worldwould be most true to what truly excites you? What inner gifts, talents, andstrengths would enable you to fall in love with life so that you feel the passion ofgiving your best?As a guide to your ultimate self-actualization, I will quote again and again in thepages of this book from the original pioneer, Abraham Maslow. To
give voice tohis vision of the bright side of human nature has been a wonderful privilege forme. Reading and re-reading his books convinced me that very little of his visionhas become part of todays current of thought, that his genius has not even begunto be appreciated, and that what he wrote and developed could very well changethe quality of life on this planet.If youre open to waking up to the possibilities slumbering inside you and ifyoure game for the ultimate adventure of lifebuy this book. In it I set beforeyou the Red Pill. So be careful. Take it and I will show you the Matrix, whichwill invite you into the whirlwind of the Construct where you will discover anddevelop your incredible powers as a maker of meaning in the Crucible ofchallenge. Are you ready to see how deep the rabbit hole goes? Are you ready tobecome unleashed? Are you ready to step into the Zone of focus and flow atwill so you can get lost in an engagement? Then turn the page and youll beginto take the Red Pill of self-actualization.
Dr. Joan Borysenko gives advice for accessing your "heart's voice."Model photo: Colourbox.comI was giving a workshop one day for a group of high-powered women in the health-care profession. These physicians, nurses, therapists, and administrators were some of the busiest women on the planet, many with pressing life-and-death responsibilities. It was the third day of a conference on womens health, and for once we were focused on our own health. The conversation had turned to how we can take care of ourselves when were so busy caring for other people, both on the job and at home.Intellectually, we were all on the same page. Almost every woman understands the airplane metaphor of needing to put on our own oxygen mask first before helping the ones who might be dependent on your care. But understanding the metaphor emotionallyfeeling it at the gut level where wisdom livesis another experience altogether.I asked the group to close their eyes and just pay attention to the feeling of busyness, rather than to their stories about it. You might want to try the exercise we did yourself (which follows in the next paragraph), or better yet, with a friend or two. Pause at each break so that you can experience your responses mindfully. Theres no right or wrong experience. A gentle, honest, open awareness of your feelings is the only goal.Think of a typical busy day . . . What time is it? . . . What are you doing? . . . Are you at work? . . . At home? . . . Whos there? . . . What are you saying to yourself? . . . Now let go of all the stories in your mind . . . tune in to your body . . . what do you feel? . . . Where do you feel it? . . . Are you excited or energized? . . . Are there butterflies in your stomach? . . . Is there tightness in your chest? . . . Are you at peace? . . . Are you tense? . . . Follow the sensations wherever they lead you. Dont try to make them go away or to change them . . . . Just observe what youre feeling without any judgment about whether its good or bad . . . . The only thing that matters is your willingness to be aware and stay present to your feeling.After wed completed the exercise, the women sat together in groups of three and shared their experience. The facades of powerdoctors versus nurses, surgeons versus family-practice physicians, administrators versus support staff, evaporated like the morning dew. There were only women telling the truth about their lives, coming into the present moment and listening for what busyness felt like inside.The most common feelings that busyness evoked were anxiety, fear, sadness, grief, loneliness, and anger. There were a lot of tears, hugs, and murmured sounds of comfort and understanding as women gave voice to their feelings. You can talk about busyness and stay in your head, or you can move into
your heart and feel the emotional reality of busyness in your body. When youre willing to do that, a space opens for emotions to do their work of informing, energizing, and motivating you to live your life in alignment with whats most important to you as a compassionate, caring human being.The sad irony of this exercise was that several women realized that they kept even busier than they had to because the distraction of constant doing kept unpleasant emotions from coming up. When your life gets to the point where youd rather vacuum than feel the emptiness of loneliness inside, its time to deepen the connection to your inner wisdom. That takes courage. There may be healing work to do or difficult choices to make. Listening to yourselfmaking room for your hearts voice to be heardand staying present to whats true with deep tenderness is an essential skill for inner peace.Ten minutes of meditative stillness in the morning, a little time each day with a journal, or a 20-minute silent walk are all occasions for listening. If you take even a small step toward the stillness of Being, the emotional energy you find there can begin its work as a peacemaker and emissary of wisdom.Reprinted with permission from HealYourLife.com Copyright 2011 (Hay House). Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is one of the leading experts on stress, spirituality, and the mind/body connection. She has a doctorate in medical sciences from Harvard Medical School and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Visit:www.JoanBorysenko.com.
Barry Boyce reports on top tech companies Google, Facebook, Twitter and eBay, whose management see value in fostering employees' well-being. More on this at Wisdom 2.0 in Feb.Photo of Michelle Gale Flickr.com/Mari SmithChanging the world is a tall order, so most people start with their immediate surroundings. In the tech worldwhere work and play and life are so tightly intermingledthe obvious place to start is the workplace.The best-known program in high tech for promoting wisdom practices is Googles Search Inside Yourself (Read Google Searches here on Mindful.org), which was spearheaded by Chade-Meng Tan. Meng, as he is known, is already a veteran spokesperson for the Wisdom 2.0 movement. His core belief is that if you can reach people at their workplace, you can change how they are, and ultimately change the world. Its becoming a kind of article of faith for the Wisdom 2.0 crowd. For digg.com founder Kevin Rose, it includes things as simple as providing people at work with high quality loose tea, so they have to at least interrupt their momentum long enough to properly make a good cup of tea, which they may then take the time to enjoy rather than simply gulp down.Human resources departments at major technology companies are committed to providing access to practices that not only help their employees deal with stress, but to be more curious and strategic about how they go about their jobs. We are very interested in the long-term well-being of the people weve invested in, particularly the managers, says Stuart Crabb, head of learning at Facebook. We want them to be role models for being present. The education system rewards people for being supersmart, but it doesnt really develop wisdom. Thats sorely lacking. Crabb notes that the continuous stream of stimuli that is the daily reality for tech workers, not to say the population at large, is a dangerous drug. It looks like its very powerful and enabling but it also has the possibility of permanently derailing someone.Over the past year, Facebook has been adding about one hundred employees a month. Twitter has more than doubled its workforce. In this kind of growth environment, says Crabb, Everyone needs to know the difference between sprinting and pausing. Its very hard to talk about worklife balance to the generation of people who make up our workforce. Its a big blur for them. Thats how it is for our founder. It doesnt resonate if you try to tell them that theyre running a marathon, not a sprint, because at this rate theyll be sprinting for a while. What we can teach them is the value of the pause. They have to break up their sprint into sprints.Facebook leaders dont dictate how long an employees work sprint should be, or their corresponding pause, or when and how it should happen. They know employees are the best judges of what they need. People who end the year without having taken a vacation are not heroes here, Crabb says. If you take time to figure out what the pause looks like for you and you
take it, you will come back more refreshed and ready for the next sprint. And there will be one. If you dont take the time to pause, youre going to burn out and were going to lose you before weve got the best of who you are.Rich Fernandez, head of learning and organizational development at eBay, sees mindfulness practice as the best way for people to recognize the value of pausing and regulating themselves so they can make the best decisions. He talks about it as a form of positive disruption, because it interrupts our default mechanism of doing more, more, more. We think theres a linear relationship between time spent working and results, but so often the time away, the stop to rest, the long cup of tea, following our breath, replenishes us and brings insight. Thats what the neuroscience is telling us too. Yet our paradigms for leadership usually reinforce the linear approachits about there and then, where youre going, rather than how you are being. We are a values-based company, and our first value is to keep it human. When we get away from that, we need to positively disrupt the paradigm.Fernandez has been pleasantly surprised by how workers, when given a chance, take to having a real pause, and the company supports that. When we do mindfulness talks, we pull employees away from the line for an hour and a half at a time. I saw 250 employees at an internet company sitting still for a talk for almost ninety minutes and then doing ten minutes of mindfulness practice. No one got up and left.Michelle Gale is a mindfulness practitioner and coach who works full-time in Twitters leadership and development department. Gale says her departments goal is having wisdom practices be the underpinning of employee work life, so everyone feels they are growing personally and professionally. The Twitters, Facebooks, Googles, and eBays of the world are run by very soulful people whose underlying intention is to have a workplace that fosters well-being. People tend to take care of each other.Gale says she has found that synchronizing mind and body is one of the most helpful practices. When I was young, I lived a life that was very embodied. I danced, I played sports, I climbed trees and rode horses. But somewhere along the line, I lost that connection with my body, she says, echoing the recollections of many others. In the tech world, she says, there is very little opportunity to get out of our heads and into our bodies, to notice the intelligence and connection to something bigger that exists within our bodies. They constantly offer us brilliant information and we are just too busy to notice it. And yet, its the very thing we need.Gale has been exposed to various methods for developing somatic intelligence, but she has been most taken by the approach taught by Wendy Palmer, founder of Conscious Embodiment. Palmer has practiced aikido for forty years, and the principles at its core form the basis for the bodymind practices she teaches. The goal
of aikido is to be able to protect the attacker as well as yourself, Palmer says, and when you extend that principle into how you deal with conflict and pressure, it can put your body in a position thats conducive to a different kind of chemistry than high doses of stress hormones provide.These practices extend mindfulness into the high-pressure situations Gale so often faces at work, where mindfulness might normally go right out the window. Before I enter a potentially stressful meeting, before a difficult conversation, before a coaching session with a manager, when I encounter someone visibly upset, Gale says, noticing how embodied I am and reconnecting on the spot has been such a big help to me. I see developing this kind of bodily intelligence as something that can make a big difference within Twitter and in the tech field altogether."So many people can benefit: product managers who need to manage multiple projects and have information charging at them from all over the company; managers who have employees who need them fully present but their minds are on a million other things; engineers who get interrupted during very deep coding sessions and need to get back to that space as quickly as possible; high-level executives who need to see the big picture and need to make space to foster innovation rather than control. The ability to synchronize our mind with our body supports all of these common daily challenges. We can always ask how embodied we are in any given moment.
and creativity; the fear is that if we dont, the world will face debilitating collapse on many fronts.Over the past several months, I have been poring over the books and papers of four thinkers looking for new ways to solve global problems: Kahane, who wrote Solving Tough Problems; Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Upside of Down; Paul Hawken, who wrote Blessed Unrest; and Meg Wheatley, author most recently ofFinding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. I interviewed each of them about the very difficult challenges the world faces today and what we can do that doesnt simply amount to the same old thingbut better.Adam Kahane was working as an analyst in the strategic planning department of Royal Dutch/Shell in 1991 when his career took an unexpected turn. Kahane was doing scenario planning, a sophisticated tool for navigating a complex future that was pioneered in the 1970s by Pierre Wack, head of Shells economic forecasting group in France. Because of Shells expertise in scenario planning and its long involvement in South Africa, the company was asked to send a planner to facilitate an exercise in charting the future of a post-apartheid South Africa.The exercise brought together twenty-two influential South Africans, leaders from both the anti-apartheid opposition and their adversaries within the white community. Over the course of a year, they held four intensive meetings at the Mont Fleur Conference Center on a wine estate in the mountains just outside Cape Town. They saw this as an opportunity, Kahane says, to participate in giving birth to the New South Africa. The hallmark of Mont Fleur was that people with very different perspectives and power bases were able to envision the future together. This helped immeasurably during the radical transformation the country underwent.Inspired by this success, Kahane has continued to travel the world at the behest of parties groping their way through intractable problems and crises. He has worked on post-war rebuilding in Guatemala, contested elections in the Philippines, civic rejuvenation in the United States, judicial reform in Argentina, and child malnutrition in India, to name a few. Kahane knows that none of these initiatives in solving problems through dialogue has been an unqualified successand some have been utter failuresbut he believes his thinking, and that of the many people hes been working with, has evolved in helpful ways. Now he has taken on one of his most difficult projects to date: climate change.Climate change, Kahane says, is the paramount example of a tough problem, and before offering any prescriptions, he insists on a diagnosis. The problem with climate change, like the many other tough problems we face, is our response to complexity.Theres a way to deal with simple problems on a small scale, Kahane says. This for the most part involves directing and controlling: if you want to fix a broken table, you roll up your sleeves, take charge, and repair it, brush-slapping your hands together in accomplishment at the end. But its different when a problem is complex. If you try to do the same thing, Kahane says, you will get disastrous