Patience acts as a counterforce to anger. In fact, for every negative state, we can identify one which opposes it. Humility opposes pride; contentment opposes greed; perseverance opposes indolence. If we wish to overcome the unwholesome states which arise when negative thoughts and emotions are allowed to develop, cultivating virtue should not be seen as separate from restraining our response to afflictive emotion.

~ Dalai Lama

I posted on patience the other day and can’t believe I didn’t include the quote above from the Dalai Lama.  So I’ve rectified that little error and also provided you a quote from Albert Camus about work, given that most of you will be seeing this for the first time on Monday morning when you’re on your way or at work.  Remember it is in all of our life where we need to search for happiness, if you find happiness in your job that’s fantastic.  For those of you who don’t, then it’s time to seriously sit down and consider when and how you can change the work you do.

For me in many ways this was the first area where I started my quest.  As I grew up I watched a lot of the adults around me working at jobs they did not like.  Many of them felt caught because of the situations they were in, married with children, unable to move, not enough education to find another job, or the opportunity to get an education.  As I moved through my college education I worked a lot of the time, much of it in jobs that were terrible, clerk, receptionist, Burger King, custodian and even personal shopper at Talbots.  However when I completed my education I made a promise to myself that I would no longer work a job I wasn’t happy in.  I’d gotten an education, the experience I needed and I have an array of talents and skills.  That was my path, the way I got to do the type of work I do today.

I again find myself looking forward, my work has lost its fascination, so what do I do now?  Our journey is never-ending friends and as I move forward in my search this time I’ll bring you along as it happens and maybe help you find a path to improving yours as well.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
~Albert Camus