Meditations for People in Charge

A Handbook for Men and Women Whose Decisions Affect the World By Paul Brunton

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Meditations for People in Charge
A Handbook for Men and Women Whose Decisions Affect the World
by Paul Brunton

"Much of value and wisdom . . ." —Mary Ellen Withrow, when Treasurer of the United States

Subjects: Inspiration, Spirituality, Self-help, Self-Development

4.75 x 7.25, paperback
112 pages

ISBN 10: 0-943914-72-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-943914-72-5

Book Details

Description

"I began scanning through it and even in the brief reading found so much of value and wisdom." —Mary Ellen Withrow, when Treasurer of the United States 


IF YOUR AUTHORITY touches lives or influences minds—or if you're close to someone whose does—this book is a great gift. It's full of accessible, handy, and inspiring wisdom for

  • Parents

  • Teachers

  • Business executives

  • Political administrators

  • Leaders of organizations of all types and sizes

  • Doctors, lawyers

  • Religious leaders and counselors

  • Military leaders

  • Police administrators

  • Prison wardens 

and anyone else who wants (or needs) to keep in mind the ultimate happiness of everyone affected by his or her decisions.

Introduction

This book is designed to inspire, counsel, and console people already in, or aspiring to, positions of responsibility. It is designed to keep you in touch with your own spiritual strength and personal integrity; to help you be well, do well, go on fighting that good fight day after often difficult day, and be happier at the end.

It’s also designed to help you cultivate qualities, attitudes, and skills that will make others happy that you’re in charge. It’s especially meant to help you know where to turn to sound out your own best intelligence amidst conflicting advice or data.

                                                                                   * * *
What does it mean to be “in charge”? My thoughts first began to roam around that question back in 1981, after reading an article Lance Morrow wrote for Time magazine about the decline of the work ethic. He suggested that the key to having a positive work ethic is that the work being done is seen as “pleasing in the eyes of God.” With as little of that as is being offered today, he asked, is it any wonder the work ethic is fading away?

Many years later, a good friend pointed out that this idea was so fundamental to the founders of the United States that it appears on the back of the $1 bill. Take a look at the image of the Great Seal, with an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid. It symbolizes the pyramid structure of society working with divine vision at its peak. The Latin novus ordo seclorum means “a new world order”; the annuit coeptis means “He is smiling on us.” On the dollar bill, all this suggests that this idea was at the very basis of their notion of an effective modern economy.

Is it surprising that now we are moving toward an hourglass-shaped socio-economic structure—symbolizing how deeply we’ve gotten ourselves trapped in the constricting structures of time, how far we are from a vision that expresses timeless or eternal values in daily life? That it’s more and more rare to find anyone actually “in charge” of anything? That nearly everyone rolls with the punches, trying to survive? That so much of life now seems to slip through our fingers like sand through the unseeing mindless hourglass?

I have come to feel that to draw upon what it takes to really be “in charge,” you need something of what the earlier model offers. You need to be instrumental in actualizing at least some small part of such vision. You have to find for yourself, and articulate for others, a standard that evokes the heart’s approval. You have to know and be able to communicate the purpose of honoring that standard. You have to be able to show how real people in a real world actually benefit—in terms of their ultimate happiness—from the efforts you are asking for in the department, division, class, family, or group otherwise charged to your care.

Is there anything about the job, the situation, the thing you are or aspire to be in charge of that, if done right, would bring a smile from whatever image you have of God in your heart? This book is meant to help you find that out and make it happen.

See all our Paul Brunton titles

To see all our Paul Brunton titles, scroll down to The Complete Paul Brunton Opus below.

About Paul Brunton

Paul Brunton helps us hear the melody behind the medley of today's "spiritual marketplace." His late writings raise the bar for what we can expect of spiritual teachings and teachers, and what we can do for ourselves. Born in London in 1898, he soon became a leading pioneer of much of what we now take for granted. He traveled widely throughout the world (long before it was fashionable) to meet living masters of various traditions with whom he then lived and studied. His eleven early books from 1934–1952 shared much of what he learned, and helped set the stage for dramatic east-west exchanges of the late 20th century. Paul Brunton left more than 10,000 pages of enormously helpful new work in notebooks he reserved for posthumous publication, much of which is now available as The Notebooks of Paul Brunton. See "The Complete Paul Brunton Opus" in blue below to see his many works available on this site. You can also search on Paul Brunton in the search bar to browse the selections, or click on a link below for specific connections.

Click here for an article about Paul Brunton.

Click here for The Notebooks of Paul Brunton.

To access small theme-based books compiled from Paul Brunton's writings, scroll down to Derived from the Notebooks below.

To access Paul Brunton's early writings, published from 1934–1952, scroll down to Paul Brunton's Early Works below.

To access commentaries on Paul Brunton and his work by his leading student, Anthony Damiani, as well as other writings about Paul Brunton and/or his work, scroll down to Commentaries and Reflections on Paul Brunton and His Work below.

Book Details

"I began scanning through it and even in the brief reading found so much of value and wisdom." —Mary Ellen Withrow, when Treasurer of the United States 


IF YOUR AUTHORITY touches lives or influences minds—or if you're close to someone whose does—this book is a great gift. It's full of accessible, handy, and inspiring wisdom for

  • Parents

  • Teachers

  • Business executives

  • Political administrators

  • Leaders of organizations of all types and sizes

  • Doctors, lawyers

  • Religious leaders and counselors

  • Military leaders

  • Police administrators

  • Prison wardens 

and anyone else who wants (or needs) to keep in mind the ultimate happiness of everyone affected by his or her decisions.

This book is designed to inspire, counsel, and console people already in, or aspiring to, positions of responsibility. It is designed to keep you in touch with your own spiritual strength and personal integrity; to help you be well, do well, go on fighting that good fight day after often difficult day, and be happier at the end.

It’s also designed to help you cultivate qualities, attitudes, and skills that will make others happy that you’re in charge. It’s especially meant to help you know where to turn to sound out your own best intelligence amidst conflicting advice or data.

                                                                                   * * *
What does it mean to be “in charge”? My thoughts first began to roam around that question back in 1981, after reading an article Lance Morrow wrote for Time magazine about the decline of the work ethic. He suggested that the key to having a positive work ethic is that the work being done is seen as “pleasing in the eyes of God.” With as little of that as is being offered today, he asked, is it any wonder the work ethic is fading away?

Many years later, a good friend pointed out that this idea was so fundamental to the founders of the United States that it appears on the back of the $1 bill. Take a look at the image of the Great Seal, with an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid. It symbolizes the pyramid structure of society working with divine vision at its peak. The Latin novus ordo seclorum means “a new world order”; the annuit coeptis means “He is smiling on us.” On the dollar bill, all this suggests that this idea was at the very basis of their notion of an effective modern economy.

Is it surprising that now we are moving toward an hourglass-shaped socio-economic structure—symbolizing how deeply we’ve gotten ourselves trapped in the constricting structures of time, how far we are from a vision that expresses timeless or eternal values in daily life? That it’s more and more rare to find anyone actually “in charge” of anything? That nearly everyone rolls with the punches, trying to survive? That so much of life now seems to slip through our fingers like sand through the unseeing mindless hourglass?

I have come to feel that to draw upon what it takes to really be “in charge,” you need something of what the earlier model offers. You need to be instrumental in actualizing at least some small part of such vision. You have to find for yourself, and articulate for others, a standard that evokes the heart’s approval. You have to know and be able to communicate the purpose of honoring that standard. You have to be able to show how real people in a real world actually benefit—in terms of their ultimate happiness—from the efforts you are asking for in the department, division, class, family, or group otherwise charged to your care.

Is there anything about the job, the situation, the thing you are or aspire to be in charge of that, if done right, would bring a smile from whatever image you have of God in your heart? This book is meant to help you find that out and make it happen.

To see all our Paul Brunton titles, scroll down to The Complete Paul Brunton Opus below.

About Paul Brunton

Larson Publications photo of author Paul Brunton

Paul Brunton helps us hear the melody behind the medley of today's "spiritual marketplace." His late writings raise the bar for what we can expect of spiritual teachings and teachers, and what we can do for ourselves. Born in London in 1898, he soon became a leading pioneer of much of what we now take for granted. He traveled widely throughout the world (long before it was fashionable) to meet living masters of various traditions with whom he then lived and studied. His eleven early books from 1934–1952 shared much of what he learned, and helped set the stage for dramatic east-west exchanges of the late 20th century. Paul Brunton left more than 10,000 pages of enormously helpful new work in notebooks he reserved for posthumous publication, much of which is now available as The Notebooks of Paul Brunton. See "The Complete Paul Brunton Opus" in blue below to see his many works available on this site. You can also search on Paul Brunton in the search bar to browse the selections, or click on a link below for specific connections.

Click here for an article about Paul Brunton.

Click here for The Notebooks of Paul Brunton.

To access small theme-based books compiled from Paul Brunton's writings, scroll down to Derived from the Notebooks below.

To access Paul Brunton's early writings, published from 1934–1952, scroll down to Paul Brunton's Early Works below.

To access commentaries on Paul Brunton and his work by his leading student, Anthony Damiani, as well as other writings about Paul Brunton and/or his work, scroll down to Commentaries and Reflections on Paul Brunton and His Work below.

The Complete Paul Brunton Opus:


The Notebooks of Paul Brunton:

Paul Brunton's most mature work, in the order he specified for posthumous publication.

Derived from The Notebooks:

Smaller books on popular/timely themes, developed from the Notebooks and published posthumously.

Early Works:

Paul Brunton's works published during his lifetime from 1934-1952

Commentaries/Reflections:

Commentaries/Reflections by other authors on Paul Brunton or his works.

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