Texts about love, silence, death, divinity, beauty, and kindness. Maurice Maeterlinck discusses the great themes that occupied him throughout his life, which he always approached as alluring mysteries.

In this volume, the Belgian Nobel laureate approaches these topics with the spiritual assistance of great mystics from metaphysical thought and literature: Plotinus, Ruysbroeck, Emerson, Swedenborg, Novalis, Carlyle, and others.

His essays in "The Treasure of the Humble" propose that we attune ourselves to the hidden life, which lies behind the world of everydayness - without being inactive - and which activates experiences of another order that do not conform to the known and limited codes of interpersonal relationships.

Bright even when he speaks of darkness, insightful even when he formulates thoughts, Maeterlinck offers us with his essays an attractive image of what eternal dwells in earthly existence.