The Essentials of Spirituality: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Essentials of Spirituality, credited to Felix Adler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Essentials of Spirituality by Felix Adler. Read in English by Lee Smalley This recording contains four addresses of Felix Adler (1851-1933) concerning spirituality from the perspective of Ethical Culture, an educational and religious movement founded and first led by Adler, based on the belief that living in accordance with ethical principles is central to a meaningful and fulfilling life. – Lee Smalley “Spirituality is morality carried out to the finish….The ultimate end (of spirituality) itself is to elicit worth in others, and, by so doing, in one's self. The indispensable condition of this attitude is to ascribe worth to every human being before even we observe it, to cast as it were a mantle of glory over him, to take toward every fellow human being the expectant attitude, to seek the worth in him until we find it.” – Felix Adler, Dec. 11, 1904

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Essentials of Spirituality
• Author credits: Felix Adler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:51:20

Catalogue topics

• morality
• ethical culture

Track guide

1. 01 - The Essentials of Spirituality — 32:21
2. 02 - The Spiritual Attitude Toward One's Neighbor — 28:39
3. 03 - The Spiritual Attitude Toward Oppressors — 27:45
4. 04 - The Two Souls In The Human Breast — 22:35

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