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Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

Abdu'l-Baha

There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Condition Confidence God Healing Heart Place Power Prayer
The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.
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Animal Body Force Man Material Partner Reality
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Forget Good Life Man Qualities Quality
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it… Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Better Cause Dislike Division Hatred Religion Unity Without
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
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Happy Live Man Reality Spiritual Truly
The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Brother Fundamental Gift God Oneness Peace Religion War
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
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Beginning Greater Intelligence Man Peace Spirituality
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Art Beautiful Harmonies Holy Light Mind Musician Spirit
The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies
ABDU'L-BAHA

Body Die Doe Need Soul Spirit
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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Attain Happiness Joy Sacrifice Self State Temporal True Vanish
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Away Cut Cutting Entirely Heart Pure Self
And it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
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Condition Greater Grieve Movement Passage Perfection Traverse
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. … so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Advance Affair Book Life Man Mind Suffering Tribulation Wordly
He needed ears; he obtained them there in readiness and preparation for his new existence. The powers requisite in this world were conferred upon him in the world of the matrix.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Ears Existence Needed New Obtained Preparation Readiness

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