The Heart of Our Common Spiritual Heritage
The whole reflects the part, and the part influences the whole. The collective reflects the individual, and the individual contributes to the collective. The journey of the whole mirrors the journey of...
View ArticleWe Are The Inheritors Of A Common Spiritual Heritage
Our common spiritual heritage represents our shared sacred story; it is all of ours to remember and reclaim as our own. The “priceless heritage” referred to by Baha’u’llah is the uninterrupted,...
View ArticleFrom Punitive Justice to Unitive Justice
The way we understand the evolution of justice is to follow the progressive release of Divine revelation. The purpose in the direction of justice is to evolve a moral code that meets the needs of each...
View ArticleReaping The Harvest of Our Spiritual Inheritance
If we can only plant the seeds we have inherited from our ancestors, grandparents, parents, or society in the garden of our own life, we may have to be careful what we allow to be planted. We may have...
View ArticleRemembering That We Are Sacred Beings
Recognizing love as the source of our core identity helps us remember at the same time that we are souls on an eternal journey. One very vivid illustration of what this all-pervasive love can look like...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Unity in Diversity
While Absolute Unity, or nonduality, has always been the nature of the eternal realm, dualities here in the temporal realm dominate, and are often seen as conflicting. How are these oppositions to be...
View ArticleResolving the Paradox of the One and the Many
A goal of our common spiritual heritage is the resolution of the paradox that reality is both one and many. We are born into the realm of dualities, but we had our origin in the realm of oneness. Did...
View ArticleIs America Going Through A “Spiritual Blackout”?
Beyond all the partisan labels that separate us, there is a hidden wholeness, a deeper oneness that unites us all. But where is this consciousness when we need it most? Six days prior to the election,...
View ArticleBeyond All Dualities Lies Oneness
There is no way around it. Beyond all dualities lies an indivisible oneness. All the world’s religions speak of this oneness. The underlying truth that the sacred traditions of the world share, despite...
View ArticleIs Civilization Dying, Or Being Born?
What is our current state of affairs, on the collective, global level? What is really going on all around us in the world today? Can we even say it is one thing and not the other? Maybe it is both at...
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