Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life

What are your truths that you need to tell?

We come to a place of better knowing ourselves and this community when we tell our truths, deeply hear the truths of others, sit still and contemplate what is real for us beneath all the noise.

Satya is Sanskrit for “truthfulness.” It is an ethical principle for a well-lived and joyful life, and is the second of five Yamas in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

What are your truths that you need to tell?

We come to a place of better knowing ourselves and this community when we tell our truths, deeply hear the truths of others, sit still and contemplate what is real for us beneath all the noise.

Satya is Sanskrit for “truthfulness.” It is an ethical principle for a well-lived and joyful life, and is the second of five Yamas in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

What are your truths that you need to tell?

We come to a place of better knowing ourselves and this community when we tell our truths, deeply hear the truths of others, sit still and contemplate what is real for us beneath all the noise.

Satya is Sanskrit for “truthfulness.” It is an ethical principle for a well-lived and joyful life, and is the second of five Yamas in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Professor Reuven Firestone was born in northern California and educated at Antioch College, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Hebrew Union College, where he received his M.A. in Hebrew literature in 1980 and Rabbinic Ordination in 1982, and New York University where he received his Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1988. For his research on holy war in Islam and in Judaism he was awarded the Yad Hanadiv Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Come learn about spiritual life and the diversity of religious attitudes and practices on campus in the 21st century.

Come learn about spiritual life and the diversity of religious attitudes and practices on campus in the 21st century.