My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
I don't think my work is about the spiritual life, but it certainly touches on it.
Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
Work is therapy for the soul.
With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.
My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.
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