- What is my unique contribution to life?
- How can I make my life count?
- What does it mean to make my work, or my relationships, or my life an offering?
Our new weekend retreat curriculum uses these searching questions as a way to tap some of our deepest motivations for spiritual growth. During this weekend, you will study together Eknath Easwaran’s article “Making Your Life Count” and mine it for clues about your individual purpose in life and how to fulfill it.
Easwaran’s article covers the key skill we need to live well in both work and family contexts: “giving our complete attention to the job at hand in a spirit of detachment.” He shows us how the eight points of his meditation program can turn that simple sentence into a formula for making a significant, enduring contribution to the lives of all those around us.
All of us, he says, have a precious gift to give life. By learning to find and give that gift, we also find meaning and inner peace. As he says in the article:
“Character is a continuing process; personality is being formed continuously. Therefore, it can be changed. It can be improved. It can be ennobled. And almost all of life, at home, at work, or even at play, provides opportunities for us not only to improve our own character, but – by our example – to encourage others to improve too.
“In this way every one of us is capable of making our life a thing of beauty, which will benefit our family, our society, wherever we work, whatever we do.”
We invite you to join us in exploring this marvelous theme at any of our Tomales weekend retreats between January and June, 2008.
