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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

Abdu'l-Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
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Concern Consideration Fellow Helping Offering Thoughtful
My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
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Constant Heart State Thanksgiving
Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
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Attainment Happiness Perfection Spiritual
It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
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Good Laughing Laughter Relaxation Spiritual
Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
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Dark Filled Heart Light Shout Strive Voice
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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Conjoining Heart Humanity Importance Love Mankind Philosophy Unity
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities.
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Degree Emerged Former Humanity Imbued Men Perfection Power Virtue
Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
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Light Lips Make Silence Strong Wind Wise
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, … grows and develops through the animal spirit.
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Animal Book Bounty Develop Human LIkened Man Mirror Shining Spirit Sun
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.
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Cold Flame Heart Hopeless Lifeless Light Sorrowful
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
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Forget Good Life Man Qualities Quality
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
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Behold Candle Drop Flames Order Life Light Order Weep
Even through the limitless space of the heavens – surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. .
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Discovery Exalted Exist Heaven Limitless Space
And it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
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Condition Greater Grieve Movement Passage Perfection Traverse
Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here.
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Beyond Book Kingdom Must Obtained Need World
I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Angel Beg Bringer God Heaven Joy

The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

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