A Wanderer's Handbook by Carla Rueckert

Author:Carla Rueckert [Rueckert, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: L/L Research
Published: 2013-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Work

When I think about the subject of work, my mind immediately moves to two immensely different quotations. One is spoken in the mournful voice of the Preacher of the book of Ecclesiastes in The Holy Bible:

What advantage does man have in all his work which he does under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.[663]

The other, contrapuntal voice is that of Kahlil Gibran’s in the persona of The Prophet:

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.[664]

A good many wanderers find the first of the quotes very much their theme, as these two do:

I struggle with having a “real job.” They feel like prison. I just want to serve. I don’t want to worry about money. I would work my whole life long helping others, but I get stuck in the complexities of dealing with third density.[665]

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I couldn’t buy into forty hours a week, working to be miserable and have the American Dream stuff. Just because I didn’t think in culturally/societally accepted terms and buy into the getting married, having kids, and working.[666]

The time it takes to develop a good, sound idea of what work it is that we truly want to do is often far too long to suit people who want us to be all ready to come to grips with working by the time we are out of school. Often, spiritual seekers in general feel quite hapless about their real career, over-aged and under-committed, but not wanting to hurry the process:

My biggest dilemma is that I’m what is called a late developer. I’m at an age where most people are married or at least settled in a career or profession. It’s viewed as a dilemma because I’m not following the expected social constraints which, I realized long ago, that I didn’t fit into.[667]

And sometimes, we seem to be in a period where work is just never going to come together for us:

I have been laid off twice from companies that have downsized, right sized, whatever; is someone trying to tell me something? So I decided this time to do things differently. Instead of going out and doing what I have always done, I would try teaching, coaching others. I am a wonderful motivator of others. People get excited when I talk to them about their potential and how they can change their lives. Finding the context in which to do this is the problem. I also have a problem with making money doing this. I think learning about spirituality should be freely given, yet we all need to eat. The point is, unemployment checks are getting ready to end and I have not moved forward into any arena that will meet my financial needs, much less my spiritual ones.[668]

Certainly there are many reasons we can feel discouraged about working for a living.

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