Comments on Bahá’í Thought: Who Are We Anyway?

Absolutely beautiful concept of the soul and of ho...

2008-11-12T11:40:00.000-03:00

Absolutely beautiful concept of the soul and of how we construct our human selves into concepts of race, class and so on. Thank you Phillipe!

Clare and Allison, thanks so much for sharing your...

2008-11-12T11:39:00.000-03:00

Clare and Allison, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Allison I'm interested, though not sure what you would want me to say about this topic. You know my number, let's talk about it soon.

One concept that I really like is that I am a spir...

2008-11-12T10:59:00.000-03:00

One concept that I really like is that I am a spiritual being having a human experience. I take that to mean that my reality is spiritual, and that my experiences in the world (and what I choose to do with what has happened) guide my soul's development. Even if what I do with what happens isn't directly related to my soul's development, I am realizing that it can open or close me to receiving God's love and grace. I'm grateful I got that during a lovely conversation with a friend of a friend at the Cambridge celebration of the Birth of Baha'u'llah last night.

As race relations tutor in the undergrad dorm I live in, I'm planning an event on multiracial identity for the students - I'd like to invite you to participate and offer your perspective. Will get back to you on details if you're interested.

I like how you desciribe the dimensions of identit...

2008-11-12T08:43:00.000-03:00

I like how you desciribe the dimensions of identity, "all of these dimensions of our human experience are at best descriptive but are not definitive". I agre with you that our various identities is how we try to understand our reality... understand truth. Although using these identities to tell others who we are is not suffiecent because it is not truth in itself... it is just one fragmented vision of the truth. Keep up the great blogging!