The Soul Salons: Exploring Our Spiritual Heritage

Brief finale for the Soul Salons podcast and announcing the new website at www.thesoulsalons.com

‘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 of the Lord—so that war and strife will pass and be no more, and love and trust will pitch their tents on the summits of the world.”

‘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 of the Lord—so that war and strife will pass and be no more, and love and trust will pitch their tents on the summits of the world.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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 school of inquisition: it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.”
Michele de Montaigne

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 school of inquisition: it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.”

Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, had some controversial approaches, but her writings shed light on the power of prayer and divine love to heal the body and the soul.  

“Forsaking matter for Spirit by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.”
Mary Baker Eddy

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

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

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 Buddhas.”

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 Buddhas.”
The Dhammapada