If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
ABDU'L-BAHAUntil 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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The supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms
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Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.
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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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This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.
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New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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Man’s intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace.
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The forces and powers necessary for this world were bestowed upon him in that limited condition. In this world he needed eyes; he received them potentially in the other.
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Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
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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
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They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
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It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
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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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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.
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It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
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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.
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