WISDOM

expressed in:
Discretion

Business
Relationships
Work,

& @ Home

My soul, wait thou only upon God; 

for my expectation is from him.

Shew me thy way, O Lord; teach me thy path.  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation;

on thee do I wait all the day.

--The Bible, Psalms 62:6; 25:4, 5--

©A prayer to your God who does not forget His tenderness and care for you:  “Where I am wrong, make me willing to change.  And where I am right, make me easy to live with.”

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right. 

--Science and Health, p. 9:32.

How we do things is ultimately

more important than what we do! 

–Eva-Maria--

ÿ In the martial arts, it’s a truth that your ability to generate power is proportional to your ability to relax.  People are beginning to discover that this applies to work, also.

-- David Allen--

A management specialist said: You as the outsider have to make the other person feel comfortable with you.  It is your responsibility.  There are a couple of things you can do: 1) Develop some relationship with people—ask them for advice.  2) Speak up at meetings, be one of the 1^st to throw ideas out.  Probably no one is going to say to you, “What do you think?”  So get in fast, make sure you speak up and your ideas are known, and if somebody then takes your idea, you can speak up and say, “I’m glad you agree with what I said earlier.”

Multi-Channel Business (open LinkedIn Group -- the owner and manager Rahman Mokhtar, Enterprise and Business Change Architect and Consultant at Independent, former SVP and chief Business-Technology Design, Future Group:  rahmanmokhtar@gmail.com)

QU: How do I overhaul my business to gain quality-oriented flexibility in my approach to business -- to my employees and customers?

Rahman Mokhtar • Wow, quite a deep question, and the premise is that presumably you want to elicit [an idea to] develop here a focus on the "approach." Firstly, to overhaul is to revise and improve, and in this context, I presume, it would have to be end-to-end in approach, not just business processes, but also the mindset and intrinsic behavior of people, internal and external to the business: governance, employees, suppliers, customers, all are essentially consumers of, at least, information. It's quite a challenging area to deal with. We can't simply "overhaul" people to our (business) heart's desires, and content. But you can begin by reaching out, and engaging people in a caring manner; by that I mean, "meaningful" to people's lives, aspirations, and needs. 


Eva-Maria Hogrefe • Thank you Rahman – and how right you are -- it is crucial to the enhancement of business to have a flexible approach, including for employees, and for customers alike. Within it we’ll find the human story. I would think it’s more productive to proceed from an “organization” of people as a whole than from fragments splintered apart. To promote a humane and caring approach to all in one’s business could involve Multi-Channels by channeling emotion-driven organizations into a more value-oriented business, which more or less could function flawlessly. Is it not so?

G A Dass • It is my experience having worked globally under various ownerships and managements that "businesses are not run by emotions" and neither can they add value. My school teacher used to say when dealing with students, the teacher should have " Steel hands in Velvet Gloves."  Dr. Deming stated, "Drive out fear." My personal experience has been: respect your employees, suppliers and customers, and [have] recognition [of] their efforts and contributions. That will go a long way. 
I am interested in this area of discussion.

--An excerpt from a discussion on the professional network LinkedIn -- in the open Group Multi-Channel Business -- the discussion thread: 
The Consumer is The Business --

Usefulness is doing rightly

by yourself and others.

--Message for 1900, p. 8--

Eleanor Roosevelt observed that no one could hurt us without our consent.   In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”  It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.  When we choose not to be miserable, we are free.  And no longer are we going to be influenced by the unjust treatment of some person.

Every sort of mastery

is an increase of our freedom.

--Henri Frederic Amiel, a 19^th-century Swiss writer—

Deity was satisfied with His work. 

How could He be otherwise,

since the spiritual creation

was the outgrowth, the emanation,

of His infinite self-containment

and immortal wisdom?

--Science and Health, p. 519:3--

A picture I took of Pittsbough. PA. on a recent trip to  the city of many bridges--from a hill above the city--

WISDOM is present as many bridges –

showing you and me how to

cross over – beyond—

 the turbulent waters of fear and uncertainty,

to the shorelines where contentment

is found in true love and peace. 

–Eva-Maria—

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

--William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)--

The benefits of wisdom:

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way . . . Then I was by him, 

as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, 

rejoicing always before him.

--The Bible, Proverbs 8:22, 30—

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,

and a light unto my path.

--The Bible, Psalms 119:105—

A Sunday School teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible; Psalm 23.  She gave the youngsters a month to learn the verses.  Little Rick was excited about the task—but he just couldn’t remember the Psalm.  After much practice, he could barely get past the first line.  On the day of reciting the psalm in front of the congregation, Ricky was very nervous.  However, when his turn came, 

he stepped up to the microphone and said with a strong voice, 

“The Lord is my Shepherd, and that’s all I need to know.” 

The fear of the Lord

is the beginning of wisdom …

I understand that to mean, the respect of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom …

 --Eva Maria—

Spirit is spiritual consciousness alone.

--Unity of Good, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 35—

The true consciousness

 is the true health.

--Miscellaneous Writings by MBE, p. 299--

From thought to thought, from peak to mountain peak,

Love moves me forward, while each beaten path

I find contrary to a tranquil life.

If on some solitary slope I find

a spring or river, or a shady valley

between two hills, my soul seeks refuge there;

as Love dictates, it laughs

or weeps, now fearful, now assured, and then

my face, which follows as the soul leads on,

is cloudy and then clear,

but stays the same for just the briefest moment.

--THE POETRY OF PETRARCH (1304-74)--

No evidence before the material senses 

can close my eyes to the scientific proof that 

God, good, is supreme. 

–Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings, p, 277--

With love,

Eva-Maria

SOUL

expressed by:
Beauty

Art
Music
Dance

Poetry
Prose

Nature,
and more...

Question. -- What are body and Soul?

Answer. – Identity is the reflection of Spirit, the reflection in multifarious forms of the living Principle, Love.  Soul is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man, which is individualized, but not in matter.  Soul can never reflect anything inferior to Spirit.

Man is the expression of Soul.  The Indians caught some glimpses of the underlying reality, when they called a certain lake ‘the smile of the great Spirit.‘    

--Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key

to the Scriptures, p 477—




Wait patiently for divine Love [Soul] to move upon
the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept.
Patience must "have her perfect work."
--Science and Health, p. 454--

Water calm, dark caves’ recesses,

Solemn light and mountain peaks,

Strange how this our soul addresses

And with awesome import speaks.

Nature thus herself has shown,

Sensed by artist’s eye alone.

--Goethe--

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

 --Seneca—

The 

recipe for beauty is to have less illusion 

and more Soul.

--Science and Health, p. 247—

Great wisdom is generous; 

petty wisdom contentious.  

Great speech is impassioned,

small speech cantankerous. 

–Chuang-Tzu—

There is moral freedom in Soul.

--Science and Health, p. 58—

It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable… . 

–Socrates—

miniature painting (late 1980) -- Canadian Geese-- by Eva-Maira Hogrefe


The divine Mind is the Soul of man, 
and gives man dominion over all things.  
Science and Health, p. 307--

ink-drawing with white crayon on brown paper -- ARTIST (in the 1970) -- by Eva-Maria Hogrefe

Humor:

An artist, who had an exhibit in a gallery, was present to answer questions about his work.  A man standing in front of one of his big canvases, titled “Lamb grazing,” asked, “Where is the grass?”  The artist replied, “The lamb has eaten it.”  “But,” said the man, “Where is the lamb?” The artist, “Would you stay around after you had eaten all the grass?”

Soul has infinite resources

with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, 

if sought in Soul.

--Science and Health, p. 60—

Some lessons from nature --

Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature.   Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, -- all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity.  Sun and planets teach grand lessons.  The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally toward the lights.

--Science and Health, p. 240—

A musician demonstrates the beauty of the music 

he teaches in order to show the learner the way 

by practice as well as precept.

--S&H, p. 26—

Mozart experienced more than he expressed.  The rapture of his grandest symphonies was never heard.  He was a musician beyond what the world knew.  This was even more strikingly true of Beethoven, who was so long hopelessly deaf. 

Mental melodies and strains of sweetest music supersede conscious sound.  Music is the rhythm of head and heart.  Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine.

--Science and Health, p. 213--

Whatever furnishes the semblance of an idea governed by its Principle, furnishes food for thought.  Through astronomy, natural history, chemistry, music, mathematics, thought passes naturally 

from effect back to cause.

--Science and Health, p. 195—

--painting by Grant King ...

architect, artist, and enthusiastic fisherman.  He taught me how to catch a sand-shark 

@ the beach in Del Mar, California.  Grant & Emma were dear friends of mine.  One day, Grant showed me how to throw a fish line.  He then said, "Come, throw the line."  I did.  Somehow I managed doing it right, and an obliging hungry sand shark took the bait.  Dangling outside of my open car window, 
the shark and I drove home.  
It was the first and last time I went fishing.  O not to forget, yes, Emma, Grant, and I, we continued to be the best of friends.

Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penmanship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, can all be taken from pictorial thought and memory as readily as from objects cognizable by the senses.  Mortal mind sees what it believes as certainly as it believes what it sees.  It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts.  Pictures are mentally formed before the artist can convey them to canvas.  So is it with all material conceptions.  Mind-readers perceive these pictures of thought.

--Science and Health, p. 86--

Mind is not necessarily dependent upon educational processes.  

It possesses of itself all beauty and poetry, 

and the power of expressing them.

The influence or action of Soul confers a freedom, which explains the phenomena of improvisation and the fervor of untutored lips.  Science and Health, p. 89--

True idealism is a divine Science, which combines in logical sequences, nature, reason, and revelation.  An effect without a cause is inconceivable.

--Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 217—

“We see our purpose clearly and fulfill it as we use every opportunity that presents itself to express such God-like qualities as alertness, honesty, poise, intelligence, love, and strength.  These qualities, steadily put into practice, reveal the tangible presence of infinite harmony.  We feel more peace and dominion.  This is the result of spiritual growth, which leads naturally to success in our activities – be it in school or on the job.  The torment of uncertainty and fear of failure disappear.

“Anxiety and doubt are impositions obscuring our view of God’s purpose for us.  …Such feelings merely call attention to the presences of spiritual solutions.  They make it a necessity to be on the lookout for the good that flows from the source of all good – God.”

--An excerpt from an article, Certainty of Purpose, by Eva-Maria Hogrefe, C. S.,

published in the Christian Science Sentinel,

September 25, 1995—

Climbing Rose

As my doings

--serene or slow or speedy—

begin with God,

                                    the healing Christ-idea

appears,

                                    to move me to pasture lushly green

(for my expectation is of Thee).

Oh radiant sweetness,

blessed Prince of peace,

by now I know with humble certainty,

God rejoices over me.

-Eva-Maria--