Hey everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. This is part two of our discussion with Michael Wilcox that we're calling God's many voices.

If you haven't heard part one yet, we'd encourage you to go back and listen to that episode, which was released last week as number 85.

In it, Brother Wilcox shared with us why he spent so much time with the ideas and in the holy books of other religions.

In this part, we actually got to dive into a few of these books with Brother Wilcox, and he shared several of his favorite passages with us.

The books we got to spend a little bit of time in were the Analects of Confucius, the Bhagavad Gita, the Quran, the Dhamma Pada, and the Dada Ching.

It was so fun to get to spend this time with Brother Wilcox, and hear some specifics of what he's learned from faith and wisdom traditions around the world.

We were reminded of Joseph Smith's words. One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from once it may.

We're excited to share this second and final part of the discussion with you.

Thanks a ton as always for listening, and with that, we'll jump into the episode.

Our listeners can't see this, but you brought a stack of books with us.

No, we were going to talk about these things.

We would love, I mean, and honestly start wherever you want. I know you have some ideas.

I just tried to grab a few things. I'll kind of end in what I call, I have eight standard works, if it's not heretical to say that.

I have eight of them. The four, kind of what I call Western standard works, the Bible and Book of Mormon.

Pretty great, probably stock, covenants.

And what I call the four, Eastern standard works. One from Buddhism, one from Taoism, one from Confucius, and one from Hinduism that fed me.

And the nice thing about the Eastern standard works is that they're short.

You can read them quickly, but be fed for a lifetime.

But maybe before we look at some of those, I have found wonderful truth in myth.

So for instance, there's a beautiful Greek myth about filiman, which we have a man named after him in the New Testament.

And his wife, Bossus, and they're probably a middle-aged couple. They love each other very, very much.

I'm going to do this really quick.

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