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In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

Abdu'l-Baha

The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
ABDU'L-BAHA

Error God Guidance Identical Ignorance Knowledge Real
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful,
ABDU'L-BAHA

Blessed Depressed Mood Prayer Sacrifice Slave
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
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Conjoining Heart Humanity Importance Love Mankind Philosophy Unity
Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dignity Divine Eye Eyes Heart Heaven Respected Right Sex Superior
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Concourse Faithful Jesus Presence Soul Supreme Sustained
When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attribute Established Holy Qualities Realized
It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Good Laughing Laughter Relaxation Spiritual
There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Art Effort Energy Exert Pride Question Science Sense
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
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition.Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Aspect Cleanliness Condition Holiness Human Purity Spirituality
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
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Light Lips Make Silence Strong Wind Wise
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Expressed Heavenly Ocean Parable Spiritual Teaching Understood
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Behold Candle Drop Flames Order Life Light Order Weep
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

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