Human Flourishing Through Wisdom Traditions
Universal Enlightenment and Flourishing, UEF, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to human flourishing and religious literacy. Our approach is based on universal concepts, marrying ancient wisdoms with findings of modern physical and social sciences. UEF creates, curates, and distributes content related to human Flourishing and religious literacy.
Scholars from across disciplines and leaders of all faiths have battled with the fundamental questions of living a fulfilled life — that of good and evil, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, life and death, the meaning of life, and the purpose of our existence. While distilling through the vast array of these approaches, I found a beautiful simple insight that emphasizes a common universality for all humans. In our view, “To Flourish is to Love, Learn & Play”. These three are the most deep-seated of our existential longings. We can truly flourish if we approach everything we do with an LLP (loving, learning, and playful) mindset. This framework is as simple as it is profound.
Our goal is to enhance Human Flourishing by integrating knowledge across the silos of time, civilizations, geographies, and the academic disciplines of social and physical sciences; and sharing actionable insights, which have been validated through science and lived experiences.
UEF facilitates the research and dissemination of ideas around human flourishing and religious literacy through published literature, dynamic social media content, partnerships with educators for school children, and events such as seminars and bootcamps. Our key insight is that we can truly Flourish simply by engaging in our three deepest human longings — Loving, Learning, and Playing in everything that we do.
UEF seeks to explore and demonstrate how the LLP framework is applicable at all stages of life, across all professions and vocations, across cultures, ethical traditions, and other belief systems. Most importantly, the insights from UEF’s flourishing framework are compatible with all belief systems and of high relevance for all faiths.
Over the past four years the UEF team has researched over 60 commonalities found across all religions, which we share with email subscribers in our Weekly Wisdom Bytes. These findings have been collected and organized in our first publication, Bridges across Humanity — Many Religions, Same Learnings.
We hope you are inspired by our mission, and our pursuit to unite humanity through Flourishing. We invite you to engage with us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. There are several ways to contribute, be it pro bono or professionally, full time or part time, participation in discussion groups, as an editorial contributor, to sharing feedback.
Despite unprecedented levels of material success, we today feel unfulfilled, anxious, and disconnected. This book offers you a deeply intuitive solution: real well-being arises when we engage our deepest human longings: to love to learn and to play in whatever we do, irrespective of our endowments or circumstances.
Religion is the primary expression of humanity’s quest to find meaning and purpose. However, it can inspire and provoke, unite and polarize. Bridges Across Humanity clearly demonstrates that religions are the bridges that unite us and are stronger than the walls that divide us.
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Mohit Kapoor shapes UEF’s digital voice and social media strategy, bringing the philosophy of Love, Learn, Play to life for a global audience.
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Scholar in Residence @ Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, PhD Researcher at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Philosophy & Academic Coach
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Harvard Kennedy School
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Harvard Divinity School
Tyler J. VanderWeele, PhD
Interdisciplinary program that "aims to study and promote human flourishing, and to develop systematic approaches to the synthesis of knowledge across disciplines."
Charles Stang, PhD
A research institute affiliated with Harvard Divinity School, which promotes the study of religion through lecture series and other events.
Diane L. Moore, PhD
Professor Moore launched a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) through HarvardX on January 8, 2018 entitled Religion, Conflict, and Peace in Contemporary Global Affairs.
Josiah Ober, PhD
A newly inaugurated program of interdisciplinary courses and faculty, run through the Political Science department at Stanford University.
Lydia Dugdale, MD
An organization concerned with fostering flourishing relationships between patients and medical professionals.
Jenny Carlen
Grant-giving charity breaking the cycle of poverty in Africa through women’s advocacy, education, and empowerment.
Ms Connie Estades
Founded in 1987, the San Juan Community Library is one of the few lending libraries in Puerto Rico and has more than 30,000 books in Spanish and English in its collection.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Connects researchers and practitioners to improve the lives of unhoused individuals. The initiative focuses on policy, community engagement, and research, alongside efforts by the Harvard Kennedy School and Divinity School to address local, systemic issues.
Rev. Dr. Tiffany Steinwert
Supports the spiritual and religious lives of Stanford students, faculty, and staff through programming, pastoral care, and interfaith dialogue.
