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• When I wrote my treatise about our system
• I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity;
• and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose..

• Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.

• Isaac Newton, Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, 189.R.4.47, ff. 4A-5, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK; found on the Newton Project website: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00254; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• This Being governs all things,
  • not as the soul of the world,
  • but as Lord over all.
• . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect
• . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a
  • living,
  • intelligent, and
  • powerful Being.
• . . . He is not
  • eternity and
  • infinity, -but
  • eternal and
  • infinite;
• he is not
  • duration or
  • space,
• but he
  • endures and
  • is present.

• Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.

• Does it not appear from phenomena
• that there is a Being
  • incorporeal,
  • living,
  • intelligent,
  • omnipresent,
• who in infinite space
• sees the things themselves intimately, and
• thoroughly perceives them, and
• comprehends them wholly.

• Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain?
• And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?
• Was the eye contrived without skill in optics?
• And the ear without knowledge of sounds?

• Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.

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

• all good regenerative businesses are built on four pillars: ecological, social, spiritual and financial

• both
  • the idiosyncratic claims of traditional theism and
  • the positions of certainty in atheism
• in favor of a middle, exploratory ground.
• The term was first defined by neuroscientist David Eagleman in relation to his book of fiction Sum.
• Asked whether he was an atheist or a religious person on a National Public Radio interview in 2009, he replied
• quote
  • I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
• end quote
• In an interview with the New York Times, he expanded upon this:
• quote
  • Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet
  • we know too much to commit to a particular religion.
  • A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story
    • (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true.
  • But with Possibilianism I'm hoping to define a new position
    • one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities.
  • Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind;
  • it is not interested in committing to any particular story.
• end quote