At the recent AGM Val Goss said: 2007 was a year of much activity for the Society as we have heard from the Secretary’s report and the accounts. The PDO conference, the publication of new titles to add to our bibliography, our participation in Just This Day and the printing of the Record to name just a few of the great undertakings of the year.
I wonder if these undertakings are part of a starting point for new activities for the Society as suggested by Emilios Buritinos in his letter to the Society that you will find in the current edition of Contact. 2008 is very much a year for active reflection to improve our understanding about the proper role for the Study Society in the world today.
We have had a great deal of help with the question of our proper role on the individual level and I feel a great certainty about the wonderful changes that calling on that help is bringing about at the individual level. In this Society and in the world at large people are coming to real and present understanding of unity and truth. That can be seen and experienced all around. Here, I see people, who are not only seeing the good in each other, but more and more seeing the good in themselves. The peace and confidence that brings are sure signs that we can start to tackle the very demanding task of finding out what it is that we are meant to be doing together.
I have recently come to realise that the Study Society can well afford to start seeing the good in itself: that it has a rich inheritance, so many friends, such a wonderful house to meet in. These are things I may have taken for granted and perhaps undervalued, and I am now confident that if we can find the right way to acknowledge and share the good in our Society we will find the path it should be taking into the future.
In practice this means that a small group of us will put our heads together about all this a little later in the year and in the meantime can I ask all of you two things.
Please would you give this question some thought, What is the Study Society here for? And please do let me know any thoughts you have about that.
Please would you think about whether – perhaps along the lines of Emilios’ letter – or in terms of joining others to meditate, there is something which you might want to do where you are. A small example – I have always found it difficult to find a quiet place at work to meditate, not helped recently by the move to open plan working. But having talked more with colleagues about meditation I realised I was not the only one, and just last week have finally arranged to book a meeting room for quiet use first thing in the morning. Why did that take me over 30 years to do? I don’t know. Will it make a difference? I don’t know but I hope so.
And if there is something you would like to do and you need any help or support, please do let the office know and we will do what we can.
2007 was a year of much activity for the Society as we have heard from the Secretary’s report and the accounts. The PDO conference, the publication of new titles to add to our bibliography, our participation in Just This Day and the printing of the Record to name just a few of the great undertakings of the year.
I wonder if these undertakings are part of a starting point for new activities for the Society as suggested by Emilios Buritinos in his letter to the Society that you will find in the current edition of Contact. 2008 is very much a year for active reflection to improve our understanding about the proper role for the Study Society in the world today.
We have had a great deal of help with the question of our proper role on the individual level and I feel a great certainty about the wonderful changes that calling on that help is bringing about at the individual level. In this Society and in the world at large people are coming to real and present understanding of unity and truth. That can be seen and experienced all around. Here, I see people, who are not only seeing the good in each other, but more and more seeing the good in themselves. The peace and confidence that brings are sure signs that we can start to tackle the very demanding task of finding out what it is that we are meant to be doing together.
I have recently come to realise that the Study Society can well afford to start seeing the good in itself: that it has a rich inheritance, so many friends, such a wonderful house to meet in. These are things I may have taken for granted and perhaps undervalued, and I am now confident that if we can find the right way to acknowledge and share the good in our Society we will find the path it should be taking into the future.
In practice this means that a small group of us will put our heads together about all this a little later in the year and in the meantime can I ask all of you two things.
Please would you give this question some thought, What is the Study Society here for? And please do let me know any thoughts you have about that.
Please would you think about whether – perhaps along the lines of Emilios’ letter – or in terms of joining others to meditate, there is something which you might want to do where you are. A small example – I have always found it difficult to find a quiet place at work to meditate, not helped recently by the move to open plan working. But having talked more with colleagues about meditation I realised I was not the only one, and just last week have finally arranged to book a meeting room for quiet use first thing in the morning. Why did that take me over 30 years to do? I don’t know. Will it make a difference? I don’t know but I hope so.
And if there is something you would like to do and you need any help or support, please do let the office know and we will do what we can.