The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
ABDU'L-BAHAThus 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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For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity
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So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.
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Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
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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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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
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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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Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
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To speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.
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The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.
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By nothing,under no conditions, be ye perturbed.
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In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God.
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Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!
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The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority.
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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.
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When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
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