Vocation, toil, success, rest, and the measure of work. The scale runs from -2, framed as a danger, to +2, celebrated as a gift. It means the same for every area. What is measured is what a text does, not whether it is right.
| Tradition | Framing | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Catholic | +0.7 ± 0.1 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 36 of 140 texts |
| Free church | +0.3 ± 0.1 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 35 of 119 texts |
| Sunni | +0.5 ± 0.2 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 33 of 291 texts |
| Protestant | +0.3 ± 0.1 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 31 of 141 texts |
| Orthodox (Christianity) | +0.4 ± 0.1 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 30 of 244 texts |
| Hinduism | +0.7 ± 0.1 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 23 of 73 texts |
| Theravada | +0.0 ± 0.1 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 23 of 101 texts |
| Climate movement | +0.1 ± 0.2 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 17 of 140 texts |
| Vaishnava | +0.7 ± 0.1 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 10 of 53 texts |
| Mahayana | +0.0 ± 0.3 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 8 of 34 texts |
| Humanist | +0.4 ± 0.2 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 7 of 114 texts |
| Queer community | +0.7 ± 0.2 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 7 of 81 texts |
| Judaism | +0.6 ± 0.4 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 5 of 55 texts |
| Baha'i | +1.2 ± 0.2 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 4 of 23 texts |
| Zen | +0.8 ± 0.2 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 4 of 49 texts |
| Reform | -0.3 ± 0.7 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 3 of 38 texts |
| Orthodox (Judaism) | +0.3 ± 0.3 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 3 of 42 texts |
| Tibetan | +0.5 ± 0.5 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 2 of 13 texts |
| Conservative | -1.0 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | 2 of 5 texts |
| Ahmadiyya | -1.0 as something that needs rules, measure, and restraint | one mention |
| Buddhism | +0.0 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | one mention |
| Shia | +1.0 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | one mention |
A figure like "+1" is ambiguous. An address about possessions held in trust and a prosperity gospel both land there, for opposite reasons. Here are the sentences the figures came from, set alternately by tradition.
Es wird einen Ego-Tod geben, wenn ich mich „einem Leben sichtbarer Selbstaufopferung“ verpflichte. Es wird eine Art Wiedergeburt geben, wenn ich mich an eine neue Rolle gewöhne
Gott hat uns nicht einen geist der Furcht gegeben, sondern einen Geist der Kraft, der Liebe und der Besonnenheit.
Aufhören bedeutet Aufhören des Handelns, nicht Vernichtung. Etwas hört auf zu geschehen. Untergang bedeutet Untergang der Begierde, nicht Untergang der Ansicht.
Die Reduktion der Personalressourcen ist eine Massnahme zur Sicherung der langfristigen Zukunftsfähigkeit von Greenpeace Schweiz.
If you think you will not fight, then your resolve is futile. Nature will compel you.
Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Attachment makes us feel that we must control everything. Detachment can then appear as if we stop caring about anything. But the Gita offers engagement: we carefully do what is within our control, and hand over to Krishna what goes beyond it.
When we use what God has given us to advance the work of His servants, we are not merely supporting a person; we are participating in the work that God has entrusted to that person
The decisive question is therefore not whether the roofer pays the office worker something. It is this: should statutory pension insurance merely settle individual contributions and provide for hardship cases, or may it remain a politically shaped community of solidarity that recognises long-term participation and adapts its financing to changed forms of social value creation?
For God, what counts is more than the years dedicated to his Kingdom; it is the generous acceptance of his call to devote oneself to the service of the Kingdom of God. In fact, God rewards us according to the measure of his goodness and generosity, which are far greater than the narrow measure of our merits.
Act as if everything has already been answered. Then act with tireless, ceaseless energy. And while you act, you yourself become a magnet that draws more power into your being, until you become an unobstructed channel through which divine power flows.
But this blind spot, this apprenticeship, this unbearable situation led to the fact that it, it was unavoidable for me, I had the feeling, hey, we have to do this.
It is not the customer who provides sustenance, but Allah. Earnings arise through blessing, not through greed, competition, and hostility.
Football was for a long time, spiritually speaking, my idol, one could say retrospectively, but the content of my life.
If someone throws something from a distance of four Amot against a wall, then if the thrown object sticks above ten tefachim, it is considered as if it were thrown into the air.
Du kannst jeden Moment zwischen zwei Atemzügen nutzen, um in dein Zentrum zurückzugehen. Du kannst das verbinden mit der Aufmerksamkeit auf das Herz oder andere Sachen, aber das Einfachste ist wirklich in seinem Zentrum, in seiner Mitte, in der Pause zwischen den Atemzügen, einfach dort einen Moment zu verweilen und du wirst merken, dass je öfter du das praktizierst, desto mehr wird sich dann wirk
The more we use our brains, the healthier they become. Thus we can even avoid becoming senile.
One should therefore approach the Eternal in modesty and with an awareness of one's own limitations.
We only need, when we learn something, when we listen, when we listen to those who teach, nowhere is it as important as in the Buddhist teaching, to draw the consequences from what we hear.
Der Sabbat ist um des Menschen willen gemacht und nicht der Mensch um des Sabbats willen.
It is simply a reminder that the Gospel is political and the Gospel has always been political. We are talking about workers, we are talking about work, we are talking about wages, economy, fairness, justice.
what makes wise effort wise is that it is reactive. It is not simply full throttle, continuously, 110% effort all the time. It has to be attuned to the moment in which we find ourselves, to our physical energy, our mental energy, our health
We are exposed to a general threat to intellectual work, in which there is a misalignment between the outcome of using AI and its original purpose.
The duty to which one was born must not be abandoned, O Arjuna, even if it is flawed. For everything one does is shrouded in evil, just as fire is shrouded in smoke.
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