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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

Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Expressed Heavenly Ocean Parable Spiritual Teaching Understood
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Duty Educational God Knowledge Promote
One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Human People Praise Race Task Whole Worthy
We should all visit the sick. When they are in sorrow and suffering, it is a real help and benefit to have a friend come.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Friend Happiness Healer Help Real Sick Sorrow
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attain Happiness Joy Sacrifice Self State Temporal True Vanish
When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Face God Man Sunshine Turn
But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Alertness Balance Force Losing Mental Quality Service Shifting Spiritual
Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love
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Art Children Learn Month Pride Year Young
My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Constant Heart State Thanksgiving
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Caused Illness Impression Nervous Treatment
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Absence Cause Disintegration Existence Love Phenomena
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Fall Hand Human Intelligence Man Men Progress Religion Science Soar Wing
Bahá’í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other’s character.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Affection Character Cordial Excercise Exercise Marriage Party Union
Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions
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Body Confined Country Distance Earth Man Mind Observe Small Span Travel
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
Attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attainment Conductive God Human Knowledge Welfare

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.

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