Enlightened Citizenship and Human Excellence
Think Tools for expanding ourselves
Whenever or wherever people consciously undertake the practice of excellence, they naturally end up living consciously, in awareness, with an open mind. Most important they assign a special value or meaning to the ‘idea of excellence’ …
There are two fundamental states in which we seem to engage with our work environment – the employee mode and the citizen mode. The employee mode is an “outside-in” state, and the citizen mode is an “inside-out” state..
In this vast symphony of human striving for peace and harmony, there is a special place for each one of us – both as co-creators and as the enjoyers of this peace and harmony…
This piece is a map of the ideal, it shows the way forward to those who seek to embark on the journey to becoming enlightened citizens…
Enlightened Citizenship represents the intermediate and vital bridge step between worldliness and spirituality. This is a very powerful vision for people and provides a strong ideal for every individual to hold on to…
Reason, as we know it, is built on the individual self-interest.
Enlightened reason looks at good of all stakeholders. This is therefore about ‘widening’ one’s frame…
Where does ‘reason’ (as opposed to faith) sit? In the realm of matter? In the realm of society? On in some other space.
The answer to this question comes when we recognize that the fundamental axiom on which religion itself is based is neither knowledge nor experience at either the physical plane or the social plane. Religion is based on realization at the plane of the human being…
Citizenship is a new mode of engagement and living in society. It means that power transmutes from self-centeredness to collective-centeredness (from power to control to power to contribute). It also means that knowledge transmutes from ‘knowledge as asset’ to ‘knowledge as enablement’ (from knowing to enabling)…
How do some people manage to retain the ‘citizen state of mind’ through ups and downs in the external world? They are able to do so, because they shift the basis of their identity. Put differently, they have a fundamentally different answer to the question, “who am I?”…