Category Archives: Quotations

A daily prayer

By lessan | Published: June 25, 2007

Only Beloved! With a heart on fire And all my longings set in one desire To make my soul a many-stringed lyre For Thy dear hand to play, I bend beneath Thy mercy-seat and pray That in the strength of perfect love I may Tread with firm feet the red and mystic way Whereto my […]

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Choosing a guide

By lessan | Published: October 31, 2006

The Lord of the world saith: O servants! Forsake your own desires and seek that which I have desired for you. Walk ye not without one to guide you on the way, and accept ye not the words of every guide. How numerous the guides who have gone astray and failed to discover the straight […]

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Pity the deprived

By lessan | Published: October 31, 2006

O servants of God! Deprived souls are heedless of this triumphant Day, and chilled hearts have no share of the heat of this blazing Fire. (Bahá’u’lláh, The Tabernacle of Unity, p.74)

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How to treat a brother

By lessan | Published: October 31, 2006

The children of men are all brothers, and the prerequisites of brotherhood are manifold. Among them is that one should wish for one’s brother that which one wisheth for oneself. Therefore, it behoveth him who is the recipient of an inward or outward gift or who partaketh of the bread of heaven to inform and […]

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What’s in store

By lessan | Published: October 31, 2006

Words as mild as milk? … an enlightened man of wisdom should primarily speak with words as mild as milk, that the children of men may be nurtured and edified thereby and may attain the ultimate goal of human existence which is the station of true understanding and nobility. (Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 172) […]

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