The Necessity of Adversity
Transformation is not an accident; it is essential to ongoing progress in the physical world. Abdu’l-Baha makes this clear, “Change and transformation are necessities of [...]
The Goal of Transformation
In this physical, temporal plane, change is inevitable, but transformation is conditional upon our conscious understanding of the intended meaning and purpose the transition for [...]
The Role of Archetypes in Storytelling
Archetypes are latent potentialities, or pattern-forming elements, residing in the human psyche, the meaning-making part of our vast store of ancestral knowledge about the profound [...]
The Nature of Transformation
Transformation is the nature of life. The nature of transformation is destruction (breaking down) followed by construction (building up), or disintegration followed by integration. Change [...]
The Polarity Principle
Helping to guide the processes of transformation are essential opposing forces in life, a dialectic involving a give and take that is at one moment [...]
There Can Be No Global Justice Without Unity
Justice is the greatest need of our time. Yet, because world unity is necessary for our very survival, not all forms or renderings of justice [...]
We Need a Unitive System of Justice
Justice has been long evolving toward wholeness and unity. Our understanding of justice, and our capacity to carry it out, has evolved and expanded with [...]
The Purpose of Justice
As understood by the world’s sacred traditions, justice is the embodiment of divine order on earth. Justice opens hearts, reveals secrets of the soul, prepares [...]
A Prerequisite to Justice
A human rights approach plays an effective role in establishing justice as the framework for human relationships. This maintains “rights” for all human beings while [...]
Justice Evolves, Too
The Golden Rule, a foundation and framework for a principle of justice that is universally shared, expresses the deepest aspirations of humanity: “the sum of all [...]