Guest guest Posted May 12, 2005 Report Share Posted May 12, 2005 Sairam Sisters and Brothers, Today we will hear from Ricardo Levy, Acting CEO, Catalytica Energy Systems Inc., Mountain View, California, Unites States. --- "I think that longing and belonging are two of the most important concepts. Our longings are windows into our spirituality. In a sense they are interlinked with two aspects of belonging: love and compassion. It's all a marvellous intertwining circle. One of my favourite quotes from Abraham Yoshua Heschel is: Needs are spiritual opportunities. I find this so true, just as longings are also opportunities for us to learn about our spirituality. Another quote that is a bit longer also expresses this same concept about needs. It comes from the Hindu book Will I be the Hero of My Own Life? "We are such creatures of wants that even simple things like being hungry set up an intense inner vibration from which our mechanism speaks. Generally speaking we then just want to respond to that vibration to feed the system. Rarely do we take the time to observe the nature of the vibration itself. We do not use the hunger as an opportunity to understand our own essence and the dynamics at work in us. We don't let the vibration intensify and change to reveal its subtler component. Were we to do so, we would begin to recognise the nature of wanting itself, independent of its particular form. © Global Dharma Center 2004 http://www.globaldharma.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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