Vocation

This week’s words are from the book, Awakening Through Love, by John Makransky. They are taken from the section titled: Integrating Meditation into Each Part of Your Day.

By integrating meditation practice into your life, you don’t just learn how to function better within your current job and career. You also receive light on what you feel called to do with your life, your vocation. Practice helps clarify what kind of work may best express your growing spiritual understanding and concern.

The time may come when you don’t just bring the power of meditation into your workplace but reevaluate the whole question of where you want to work to embody the spiritual principles most important to you. Some work environments or kinds of work more readily evoke your best potential and help you remember your spiritual practice. Others may feel too oppressive – at least at your current stage of practice – for you to function within them as a spiritual practitioner. You need to be realistic about where you are in your practice and not become recurrently overwhelmed by taking on more than you can handle in your job or in your spiritual life.

Finding work that you love and aligns with your spiritual path can be a long search. You may find that working as a volunteer in an organization you respect and admire can be an entry point into a different vocation.

And always remember that your presence and loving-kindness in action can be a change agent wherever you may choose to work.