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quote

• 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

• in fact, there is a way to talk about these things in a philosophical way by using the concept of emptiness, commonly found in Eastern Religions
• The interesting thing about the concept of emptiness is that even though there is a strong tradition of it in Eastern religions, it inherently defies all attempts to classify it under any of
• these categories:
  • religion,
  • spirituality,
  • science,
  • philosophy or
  • language.
• It is part of all of these, yet does not belong solely to any of them.
• emptiness can be used as a tool and organizing principle to delve into the unnamable quality of life