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The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,

Abdu'l-Baha

Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dark Filled Heart Light Shout Strive Voice
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Character Food Healing Illness Mean Physician Simple
This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both
ABDU'L-BAHA

Discovery Earth Heaven Placeless Spirit
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire
ABDU'L-BAHA

Blessed Fire Fruit God Knowledge Science Tree
Never is it the wish of `Abdu’l-Bahá to see any being hurt, nor will He make anyone to grieve; for man can receive no greater gift than this, that he rejoice another’s heart.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Angel Anymore Gift Greater Grieve Heart Hurt Recieve Wish
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
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-BAHA

Born Confirmation Genius Gift Men Pain Power Spirit
A love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Aboundeth Away Barrier Deliverance Large Peace Spirit Sweep Tolerance
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
ABDU'L-BAHA

Body Confined Country Distance Earth Man Mind Observe Small Span Travel
…knowledge is the cause of human progress.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Cause Educational Human Knowledge Progress
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Affair Important Mass Ordinary People Problem Uninformed
By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Fasting Hygiene Physician Pill Powder Prayer Reached State
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection
Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Beyond Book Kingdom Must Obtained Need World
They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Accept Acquiescence Life Man Radiant Woman
Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Fact Lack People Religious Uneducated

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