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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

You are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Among Called Earth Nation One Unity Uplift
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attain Bond Established Eternal Fellowship Harmony Man Unity
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Affair Important Mass Ordinary People Problem Uninformed
Or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you – and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Guilty Heavier Innocent Rest Sacrifice Suffer Talent Time
His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Account Effort Exerted Law Past Render
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Born Confirmation Genius Gift Men Pain Power Spirit
And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate
ABDU'L-BAHA

Effort Entirely Fundamental God Law Past Principle Sun
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind
ABDU'L-BAHA

Commitment Flower Fruit Garden Order Rose Star Tree Uplifting
Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Always Nothing Time Trouble
And it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Condition Greater Grieve Movement Passage Perfection Traverse
Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Employment Fighting Force Heart Men Oppressed Right
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
ABDU'L-BAHA

Divine Judgement Man Measure Simply Spirit Standard
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Light Lips Make Silence Strong Wind Wise
Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dark Filled Heart Light Shout Strive Voice
The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Aggressive Boh Forceful Man Past Qualities Reason Spiritual Strong
When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Face God Man Sunshine Turn

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