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The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

Abdu'l-Baha

The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.
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Awakened Contact Flame Give Life Man Rich Spiritual Warning Wish
Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.
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Affair Important Mass Ordinary People Problem Uninformed
The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other.
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Bestowed Condition Eyes Force Limited Necessary Needed Power World
Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
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Desire Encircle Filled Harmony Heart Strenuous Tranquility World
I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
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Beseech Bloodshed Cease Friendship Love Mine Peace Prayer Unity War
Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
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Fact Lack People Religious Uneducated
Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not.
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Caused Illness Impression Nervous Treatment
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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Happy Live Man Reality Spiritual Truly
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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Body Die Doe Need Soul Spirit
Help along one another’s projects and plans.
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Along Helping Plan Project
Love everybody, serve everybody.
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Everybody Humanity Serve
That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes..
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Attribute Book Divine Love Necessary Need World. Acquire
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.
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Animal Ignorance Intelligence Knowledge Mean Real Science
It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition
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Alone Fly Possible Religion Wing
There is no contradiction between true religion and science
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Contradiction Religion Science True
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. contradictory.
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Doctor Illness Mean Medical Remedies Spiritual

The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

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The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

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