Yehuda Berg’s Blog

Do you enjoy what you do?

It’s important that you do, seeing as how you spend most of your life doing it.

If you’re singing at Carnegie Hall or mopping the floors there, the Light is always involved, and that means there is fulfillment to be found. It all depends on your consciousness.

Discover the little things you look forward to in your day. If you do the same task over and over, find a creative way to do it differently. Inject excitement and passion into whatever it is you are doing. If this isn’t your dream job, then the positive energy you put into it will lead you towards your true calling.

There is a wonderful story about a man who leaves the world and arrives at the pearly gates, where he is given a preview of heaven and hell. Both scenarios have the exact same setting: people sitting around a huge pot of stew, each holding a wooden spoon with a very long handle. In hell, he sees emaciated people trying to feed themselves, but try as they might, they’re not able to get the food into their mouths using the cumbersome spoons.

In heaven, on the other hand, the people look healthy, with nice, rosy complexions. The difference is that in heaven, they’re feeding each other using their long spoons. They’re sharing, because they understand that the only way they can eat, have the real fulfillment and sustenance that they need, is by taking care of one another.

What is hell? Hell is not having the ability to share with others.

Which scenario will you choose today?

“Don’t it always seem to go,
you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.
They paved paradise
and put up a parking lot.”
-Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”

There it is, the whole purpose of creation captured in one lyric. Back in the endless, when paradise was handed to us, we didn’t appreciate it. We needed to earn it for ourselves. We’re in the parking lot now, the paving is the physical reality.

Do you appreciate your life yet?