Gayle Gregory co-authored "The Grand Experiment" and is the author of soon to be released "Workplace Evolution: Common Sense for Uncommon Times". She is a former senior manager and the founder of Pure Possibility, a coaching program that works with individuals and within the Oregon State prison system. Most recently she co-founded Workplace Evolution, a resource bank of leading edge consultants.
Co-promising Your Life
Talking with friends yesterday, the word fraud came up and an article I had previously written popped into my awareness. The article was called Tinkering to Get the Fraud Out (June 2007). I went to the Blog to re-read it and the first two paragraphs jumped out.
"Recently, I watched an interview with Brian Dennehy. As he talked animatedly about his long, illustrious career as an actor, one sentence he used grabbed me and I found myself reaching for a pencil to capture the juicy phrase. Of his performances he said he was constantly, tinkering to get the fraud out. As I listened I wondered if we are constantly tinkering to get the fraud out of our lives as well."
"The answer came in three parts. Prior to awareness of choice our tinkering is automatic and not to get the fraud out, but to survive. We don’t stop to evaluate our attempts to protect and defend ourselves. We just do it. This is actually a free state of mind. From this state of ignorance, we act, from not knowing any better. Despite the free state of mind, nothing in our lives will dramatically change. Life will be predictable. Psychics will have no trouble telling you what tomorrow will look like, because it will look like today. Behaviors will continue status quo."
One of my friends broke the word compromise into co and promise. As she said it a light-blub flickered on and I heard, as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story. Compromise is a two-edged promise. Each of us is promised to God. That is our nature; it is who we are—God’s promise. We are divine beings. For some of us that promise is conscious, for others it is not. Compromise is problematic when we are consciously promised to God and act in ways that protect the mind—our ego.
Any time we fail to stand for truth and goodness something within us dies. When we deny or delay God’s awakening within us, a pale of darkness overshadows our Great Possibility. We bow to the small, egotistical mind, allowing it to take greater control of our lives. Our compromise glasses over the light and muffles our divine sound—that pulse within us. We dim. The pulse of Life, carried at our heart’s center, acts as a beacon for all wending their way Home to God. It beats within those who have chosen to undo the tentacles of ego and forgive everything mind has made back to the Holy. The reason for denial or delay doesn’t matter. The result is the same.
Once we have heard our inner voice we are forever beyond the state of ignorance, that place where actions spring from not knowing any better. Be happy that we feel the pain of compromise. It is a blessing that numbness has not settled into our bones. A heart breaking is a divine gift. It too is a beacon, a pulse of God given freely to those who walk this path.
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