Two links, to a book and a video, that struck me this week:
- Our common humanity: reflections on the reclamation of the human spirit, by Michael L. Penn (2021). I haven’t finished it yet, but fortunately this quote was in the preface, and I got that far:
“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will occur not because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.”
–John Naisbitt - Race, Gender and Immigration: working towards equality while avoiding partisan politics / Layli Miller-Muro. A 49 min. talk given at the 2017 Association for Bahá’í Studies conference. I rewatched it yesterday to see if it still seemed as good as when I watched it in 2017, and I think it does. Two quotes I pulled out of it:
My reading of the Bahá’í Writings is that one of the reasons that we are not to engage in partisan politics is because it is not radical enough. We are not simply about tweaking, or changing a little bit, or just having a different party, or having a new bill, or a new law in place in order to heal humanity. Partisan politics is not radical enough. Bahá’ís are interested in the foundational transformation of the whole understanding of who we are as spiritual beings. (at ~18:00)
… to ridicule any soul at all is to demean the human race … (at ~26:45)