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If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.

Abdu'l-Baha

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
Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.
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Beautiful Beware Bloom Dark Garden Good Lamp Light Prejudice Rose
Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.
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Clouded Giving Influence Intellect Joy Keener Strength Time Understanding Vital Wing
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.
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Alertness Balance Force Losing Mental Quality Service Shifting Spiritual
Love everybody, serve everybody.
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Everybody Humanity Serve
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
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
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
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.
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Baha Become Dislike Division Hatred Religion
By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.
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Demonstrate Economic Equation She Social
Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain
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Fearful Healing Medicine Pain Peace Poor Provision Refuge Treasury
Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!
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Depend Dignity Equally God Heart Luminosity Purity Sex
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.
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Concourse Faithful Jesus Presence Soul Supreme Sustained
Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
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Fact Lack People Religious Uneducated
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
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Age Ageless Civilization Element Feminine Masculine New
In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
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Intense Intuition Man Men More Respect Tender
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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Development Equality Established Highest Man Mankind Reality Social Woman
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
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
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Commitment Flower Fruit Garden Order Rose Star Tree Uplifting
Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.
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Art Children Education Effort God Greatest Praise Promotion Science Service
The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.
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Courage Crisis Danger Moment Woman
Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
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Foundation Mankind Truthfulness Virtue
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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Approaching Beauty Felicity Humanity Knowledge Light Perfection Unity
If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.
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Difficulty Divorce Fall Formidable Great Victim
It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
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Good Laughing Laughter Relaxation Spiritual
Whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
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Despairing Materialism Progress Science Slough Wall Wing
I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.
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Angel Beg Bringer God Heaven Joy

If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.

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