Mindfulness, walking meditation, awareness, transcendental meditation, … are some of the words used to describe different shades of a centuries-old practice.
“What we need to do is not to avoid living but learning to recover after the adversities. Collect the fragments, Sokei, the moment has come to repair your illusions. What is broken can be reassembled, and when you will do that, do not try to hide its fragility as it is now become a revealed strength” – from ‘The Dream of Sokei’ in ‘Kintsugi’ by Tomas Navarro
Fixing what is broken is not considered a valuable mastery, especially in the western society and especially in the younger generations. The perspective to appreciate what has been fixed and to discover its beauty is even less popular.
“The nature’s complexity and intelligence show us the guidelines to manage companies and to assign the role to each player within them, with the awareness that the profit does not create value, but the creation of value does generate profit” – Massimo Mercati, MD of Aboca
More and more often, aspects like the impact on the environment and the social responsibility, together with the economic figures, are key in the evaluation of the success of a company.
“A better planet is a dream that begins to unfold when each of us decides to improve himself” – Mahatma Ghandi
Sustainable is “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” states the Brundtland Report, as the report entitled «Our common future» and published in 1987 has been named after the World Commission on Environment and Development’s chairwoman, Gro Harlem Brundtland.