The Soul Salons: Exploring Our Spiritual Heritage Unknown

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – one of the central figures of the Bahá’í Faith – shares some important insights about living in the light, or the darkness. “Perchance such ways and words from you will make this darksome world turn bright at last; will make this dusty earth turn heavenly, this devilish prison place become a royal palace […]

A French philosopher from the 16th century advises humility on what we don’t know, but that we are still born to inquire after the truth. “It [truth] is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. The world is but a […]

Digging into the deeper meanings of “The Universal Tree and the Four Birds,” by Muslim scholar, poet, and philosopher Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi. “Beautiful realities descend upon threads Toward the hearts that turn from the ornaments of the gardens In search of the one who transcends the vicissitudes of time.” Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi

The stories and teachings in the Dhammapada offer some useful guides for living, including thinking of the consequences (and karma) of our intentions and actions, and valuing the human experience. “It is rare to be born human, rare is the life of the mortals, it is rare to hear True Dhamma, rare the arising of […]

Philosophy – personified as a woman – explains the transience of life to an imprisoned Boethius and counsels him to remember his true nature and God’s guiding hand. “So, shouldst thou see anything in this world happening differently from thy expectation, doubt not but events are rightly ordered; it is in thy judgment that there […]

American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson explores “the background of our being” in one of his most popular essays called “The Over-Soul.” “We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime, within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle […]