Spirituality in Business and Life



Why are you so unhappy?
Why are we so unhappy?
Because everything you do
and 99 percent of what you think
is for yourself.
And there isn't one.

- Wu Wei, 12th Century

That's the quote that opens the article. How is the soul of an organization/corporation to become self-aware? After all, it may well be already wreaking havoc through collective unperceived and unintended consequences of its actions as a legal entity. Senge suggests that the connection between the living individual and the larger whole is through spiritual practice, a discipline of openness within which intention and purpose are made visible and emerge. Is the bottom line for business really, as it says in Cryptonomicon , "PURPOSE: To increase shareholder value by [doing stuff]". And if this is too one-dimensional, actively ignorant, and dangerous to the 3-D globe's well-being, how do we cultivate a more open care that enters into what we do?

Posted: Thu - December 4, 2003 at 01:24 PM      

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