Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
BAHA'U'LLAHBe anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
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The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.
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Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.
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Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
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Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
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All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
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Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!
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Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind…
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Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
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The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
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I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
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Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
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Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
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Regard ye the world as a man’s body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
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Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
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Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.
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The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System – the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.
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The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
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In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
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Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
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The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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