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The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

Abdu'l-Baha

Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!
ABDU'L-BAHA

Depend Dignity Equally God Heart Luminosity Purity Sex
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-BAHA

Desire Friendship Heart Inspirational Positive Race Spiritual
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Beseech Bloodshed Cease Friendship Love Mine Peace Prayer Unity War
Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Birth Face Heart Light Religion Spirituality Unite War
Whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Despairing Materialism Progress Science Slough Wall Wing
The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
ABDU'L-BAHA

Error God Guidance Identical Ignorance Knowledge Real
The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Educational Fall Ignorance Promotion Prosperity Success Urgent
In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Intense Intuition Man Men More Respect Tender
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

Animal Body Force Man Material Partner Reality
He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Ears Existence Needed New Obtained Preparation Readiness
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Happy Live Man Reality Spiritual Truly
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Brain Courage Man Moral Proved Superiority Warrior Woman
Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Darkness Everlasting Grateful Heart Strong Sun
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection

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