• annotated this article:
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftomgreenwood.substack.com%2Fp%2Fis-spirituality-the-missing-pillar&group=world

• things are created from and expand from the mind

• There are different ways that you can interpret this,
  • but in its simplest form it means that
  • everything that we do in life begins with a thought or a feeling.
• The thought or feeling always precedes the action. / Comment: This is part of the philosophy of Deep Humanity that entangles inner transformation with outer transformation /
• Therefore the inner world, the spiritual world, drives the physical world. It is a mirror. / Comment: A Deep Humanity way to express this is to say that the outer world is a reflection of the cumulative inner world's of humanity/
• Everything that humans have ever done throughout our entire history
  • has begun as thoughts and feelings,
  • which then manifested as actions in the physical world.
• Our society is therefore shaped by the interaction between
  • our inner worlds and
  • the laws of nature.
• We cannot change the laws of nature
  • and so if we want to change the world,
  • we must focus our attention inwards. / Comment: Again, this is reflected in the Deep Humanity phrase: A stimuli occurs, the heart feels, the mind thinks, the body acts and an impact appears in our public, shared reality/

for: quote, quote - spirituality, quote - Tom Greenwood, triple bottom line, spirituality and business

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• spirituality is not even a fourth pillar of sustainability,
  • but is instead the foundation upon which the pillars of
    • people,
    • planet and
    • profit
  • must be constructed.
• To succeed on the triple bottom line,
  • we must build a strong spiritual foundation.
• To do that, we must look inwards.

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• We could express this succinctly in a new phrase:
  • The bottom line of the triple bottom line is spirituality

• I think if we stripped away
  • the social stigma and
  • stereotypes,
• we would find that most people have some personal beliefs about
  • life,
  • death and
  • the universe
• that could be considered spiritual.
• In fact, I would bet that
  • the number of people who never wonder about any of these things would be close to zero.
• Spirituality then, is really the exploration of the other half of life
  • that our society isn’t comfortable exploring.
• And that’s where it gets interesting.

• The problem is that in rejecting the dogma,
• we too have created dogma.
• A dogma that shuts down our natural human inclination to explore the mysteries of life,
  • of our own inner worlds and
  • of our deep connection to nature and each other.

• spirituality is simply
  • the process of exploring the mysteries of the self and the universe, and
  • believing that there is more to life than material survival,
  • even if we don’t know what.
  • If the material world is what we can observe with our five physical senses,
  • the spiritual world is everything else.

date: Aug. 23, 2023

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• Tom'w working definition is similiar to neuroscientist David Eangleman's definition of possibilian and possibilianism

• David Eagleman's Possibilian website:
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.possibilian.com%2F&group=world

• spirituality
• business
• comfortable

• I have to admit that it feels uncomfortable even writing this. Somehow we need to get comfortable talking about spirituality.

• https://tomgreenwood.substack.com/p/is-spirituality-the-missing-pillar?r=wsvz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web