The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
ABDU'L-BAHAStrive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
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If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task.hus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.
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That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes..
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All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose.
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To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen
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Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
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If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
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Help along one another’s projects and plans.
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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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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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I want you to be happy…to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
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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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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.
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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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If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
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To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
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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.
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Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world
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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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Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder
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If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
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In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
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If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
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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.
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A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love.
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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.
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Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes.
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