If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
ABDU'L-BAHAThe pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality of human existence.
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Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.
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New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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This eternal bond should be made secure by a firm covenant, and the intention should be to foster harmony, fellowship and unity and to attain everlasting life.
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When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.
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Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
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War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.
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Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.
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The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
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Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
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The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies
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Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
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