Abdu'l Baha
Abdu'l Baha
prayer war unity
I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
wise strong wind
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.
sunshine men faces
When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
heart cutting self
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
real ignorance mean
To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. 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, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
powerful hatred baha
A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love
sacrifice self true-joy
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
spiritual laughter laughing
It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
flames order light
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.
prejudice kind welfare
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
spiritual strong past
The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.
hardship ease faces
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.
too-much baha trouble
Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
beautiful heart baha
When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.