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A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do
by Thomas Moore

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 rating: 4 of 5 stars What has currently been sticking with me as I seek to understand the mysterious turns life brings, specifically in finding a life work that brings meaning.
 
 "It may take some magic to find the work that heals you and makes you feel alive. If you are not grafted onto your nature and to the source of your life, you may be doing work that is dry and infertile. You don't feel good doing it because it isn't part of the system that includes all three parts: you, nature, and work. It is cut off and doesn't have the juice that soul would give it.
 
 To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work. Your choice of work flows from who you are - from your interests, tastes, hopes, and values. As you work, you feel that you are doing something consonant with your nature. You aren't working against yourself, not contradicting the person you are.
 
 Here is my starting poing for looking for a life work: Step out of the frenzied persuit of the right job, look around at the whole of your life, and connect with the source of your vitality. If you begin with who you are and with the current of life you feel inside you, you will be grounded as you search and experiment. Your quest will be like a spring flowing from the font of your very nature, rather than a maddening search for a suitable occupation or position."
 
 
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recommended for: anyone searching for meaning

What has currently been sticking with me as I seek to understand the mysterious turns life brings, specifically in finding a life work that brings meaning.

"It may take some magic to find the work that heals you and makes you feel alive. If you are not grafted onto your nature and to the source of your life, you may be doing work that is dry and infertile. You don't feel good doing it because it isn't part of the system that includes all three parts: you, nature, and work. It is cut off and doesn't have the juice that soul would give it.

To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work. Your choice of work flows from who you are - from your interests, tastes, hopes, and values. As you work, you feel that you are doing something consonant with your nature. You aren't working against yourself, not contradicting the person you are.

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message 1: by Emma

08/21/2008 07:37PM

Ah, you read this too. I just bought another book by him 'Care of the Soul' second hand.