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An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration.

Abdu'l-Baha

The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill….This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.
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Great Happiness Healer Remedy
To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen
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Attainment Intellectual Known People Throughout World Young
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 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.
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Aggressive Boh Forceful Man Past Qualities Reason Spiritual Strong
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,
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Appearance Book Condition Divine Mean Perfection Traverse Wisdom
I want you to be happy…to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
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Baha Happy Laugh Laughing Made Order Rejoice You
At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites.
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Character Food Healing Illness Mean Physician Simple
It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
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Good Laughing Laughter Relaxation Spiritual
When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance.
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Bring Deeply Dive Meaning Minded Ocean Pearl Sacrifice Spiritually Surface
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.
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Desire Friendship Heart Inspirational Positive Race Spiritual
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
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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Avail Good Heart Intellect Little Servant
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
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Away Cut Cutting Entirely Heart Pure Self
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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Begining Book Eye Human Life Man Matrix Reality
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

An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration.

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