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The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate just what kind of entity a self or person is (p. 1). / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of suffering for meaning making and spirituality in organizational contexts. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores how organizational spaces may be created for meaning making and how this is linked to the idea of compassion. Findings The paper suggests that while suffering has been explored in organizations, it has not been studied relative to existential meaning making. This is identified as a significant gap in research on organizational spirituality. The paper attempts to fill this gap and suggests that the study of suffering has to separate suffering as an objective phenomenon, which should be eliminated in organizations, from suffering as a subjective experience in which meaning may be found. It is also proposed that, for existential meaning to be uncovered in the face of suffering, organizational spaces have to be created in which such meaning making can take place. Originality/value The paper suggests that suffering can be a pathway to the discovery of spiritual meaning.

Man's prime interest is man. This interest has been and still is the prime mover in all that man does. For no matter what his method, he is ultimately seeking to solve the riddle of himself. It is imperative that he obtain this information so that he may be better able to direct himself in the fulfillment of his being. Thus, it is the connate objective of all men, in their own diverse ways, to seek the essence, the 'ding an sich, that which makes man man. In this search many efforts have been and are still being made. Each individual feels that his is the correct method, and so far as he does, he directs his devotion with more or leas fervour. So some men can be seen dismembering the bodies of the deceased down to the minutest cell, others testing and compounding chemicals and elements, while others seek the solution of the why and wherefore of the human machine in other actions of nature.

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