Abdu'l-Baha on illness
Abdu'l-Baha172 quotes“Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. contradictory.”
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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-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it…. Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha …knowledge is the cause of human progress.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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-BahaAbdu'l-Baha In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition.Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
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