• dream

    dream

    “One of the created phenomena is the dream. Behold how many secrets have been deposited therein, how many wisdoms treasured up, how many worlds concealed.” – Bahá’u’lláh, The Call of the Divine Beloved

  • fowl

    fowl

    “The fowls of the air and the beasts of the field receive their meat each day from Thee, and all beings partake of Thy care and loving-kindness.” —‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Bahá’í Prayers

  • keys

    keys

    “Know assuredly that My commandments are the lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My creatures.” – Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas

  • shadow

    “The lights of unfading splendor have so enveloped Him that all else but Thee is in His eyes but a shadow.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh

  • wall

    wall

    “The Friend, unveiled, doth shed the splendour of His light Through every door and wall, O ye endued with sight!” – Hátif-i-Iṣfahání, as quoted by Bahá’u’lláh in The Seven Valleys, The Call of the Divine Beloved

  • home

    home

    “…make your home a true and happy home.”– From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Family Life

  • longing

    longing

    “Longing hands are uplifted to the heaven of Thy grace and generosity: Where are the rains of Thy bestowal, O Answerer of the worlds?“– Bahá’u’lláh, Fire Tablet, Bahá’í Prayers

  • speed

    speed

    “Speed out of your sepulchers[!]”-Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

  • dove

    dove

    “O Lord my God! Long hath been the term of separation, and hard upon me the effect of deprivation! I, verily, yearn for the meads of Thy mercy even as a dove yearneth for a companion in its sylvan bower, wishing to behold Thy beauty in the World of Mysteries and to enjoy Thy pardon…

  • three

    three

    “Each moon, O my belov’d, For three days I go mad; Today’s the first of these— ’Tis why thou seest me glad.” – Rúmí, quoted by Bahá’u’lláh, The Call of the Divine Beloved

  • path

    path

    “Wert thou to consider this world, and realize how fleeting are the things that pertain unto it, thou wouldst choose to tread no path except the path of service to the Cause of thy Lord.”– Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

  • amass

    amass

    “Would that the inhabitants of the world who have amassed riches for themselves and have strayed far from the True One might know who will eventually lay hand on their treasures; but, by the life of Bahá, no one knoweth this save God, exalted be His glory.”– Bahá’u’lláh, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts

  • after

    after

    “Behold how the manifold grace of God, which is being showered from the clouds of Divine glory, hath, in this day, encompassed the world. For whereas in days past every lover besought and searched after his Beloved, it is the Beloved Himself Who now is calling His lovers and is inviting them to attain His…

  • tea

    “Muḥammad-‘Alí would carefully consider every blessing that came his way. “How delicious my tea is today,” he would comment.” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Memorials of the Faithful

  • rustling

    “And what of the delights of these gardens—their exquisite grounds and gentle breezes, their purling streams, their soughing winds, their cooing doves and rustling leaves? … Alas for them! All have perished and are gone to rest beneath a canopy of dust.” – Bahá’u’lláh, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts

  • angle

    “The American nation, of which the community of the Most Great Name forms as yet a negligible and infinitesimal part, stands, indeed, from whichever angle one observes its immediate fortunes, in grave peril.” – Shoghi Effendi, Citadel of Faith, 1954

  • gem

    gem

    “Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however acute, can ever hope to unravel.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

  • colored

    colored

    “The world of humanity, too, is like a garden, and humankind are like the many-colored flowers.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, 23 April 1912 at Howard University, Washington, D.C., from The Promulgation of Universal Peace

  • reflection

    reflection

    “Yea, the sunbeam falls alike upon the dust and the mirror, yet differ they in reflection even as doth the star from the earth: nay, immeasurable is the difference!” – Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

  • lines

    lines

    “…the lines were touching in the extreme, so that all who were there shed tears, and voices were raised in grief.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, describing the writing of the poet and coppersmith Áqá Muḥammad-Ibráhím in Memorials of the Faithful

  • scholar

    scholar

    “All men, not scholars alone, are exhorted to seek out and uphold the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.” – The Universal House of Justice

  • seed

    seed

    “Look ye not upon the present, fix your gaze upon the times to come. In the beginning, how small is the seed, yet in the end it is a mighty tree.” – ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá

  • fruit

    fruit

    “Consider the trees: If they remain uncultivated, they bear no fruit, and without fruit they are of no use. But when committed to a gardener’s care, the barren tree becomes fruitful, and, through cultivation, crossing, and grafting, the tree with bitter fruit yields sweet fruit.” —‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Some Answered Questions

  • powerful

    powerful

    “Thou art the Mighty and Powerful, Thou art the Forgiving and Thou art the One Who overlooketh the shortcomings of all mankind.“ —‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Bahá’í Prayers

  • nature

    nature

    “Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh

  • secret

    secret

    “Indeed, the wayfarer findeth a secret in every name and a mystery in every letter.” – Bahá’u’lláh, The Call of the Divine Beloved

  • canopy

    canopy

    “Now that Thou hast made them to abide under the shade of the canopy of Thy mercy, do Thou assist them to attain what must befit so august a station.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh

  • road

    road

    “O Hádí, seek a path unto the Truth, and a road leading unto God.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf

  • bloom

    bloom

    “…fields and plains shall teem with such a galaxy of sweet-smelling plants and blooms, that this lowly earth will become the Abhá Kingdom, and this nether world the world above.” – ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá

  • educate

    “O God! Educate these children.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í Prayers

  • brambles

    brambles

    “Obstruct not the luminous spring of thy soul with the thorns and brambles of vain and inordinate affections, and impede not the flow of the living waters that stream from the fountain of thine heart. Set all thy hope in God, and cleave tenaciously to His unfailing mercy. Who else but Him can enrich the…

  • flight

    flight

    “…if thou art standing, in thy yearning for My beauty, take flight…” – Bahá’u’lláh, Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh

  • obscure

    obscure

    “The Clouds That Obscure the Sun of Truth” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks

  • heart

    heart

    “We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in…

  • craft

    craft

    “When anyone occupieth himself in a craft or trade, such occupation itself is regarded in the estimation of God as an act of worship…” – Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh

  • iron

    iron

    “The spirit of man transcends the qualities and attributes of any natural element. It is greater in attributes than gold, silver or iron, which are single elements and indestructible. As they are free from destruction and qualified with permanence, how much more so is the human spirit free and immortal. How will that ever be…

  • illumine

    illumine

    “Illumine my inner being, O my Lord, with the splendors of the Dayspring of Thy Revelation, even as Thou didst illumine my outer being with the morning light of Thy favor.” —Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í Prayers

  • forest

    forest

    “So the supreme felicity of an animal resides in a green and verdant meadow, in a flowing stream of the sweetest water, and in a forest brimming with life.“ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions

  • twisted

    twisted

    “Every path shall finally be twisted except the road of the Kingdom, which straighteneth day by day… Hence one must exert endeavor in whatever is lasting and permanent so that one may more and more be illumined, strengthened and revived.…” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

  • ripple

    ripple

    “Consider the ocean, how serene it lieth, how majestically it reposeth within its bed. Yet the winds of the will of the eternal Beloved cause countless ripples and innumerable swells to appear upon its surface, each wave distinct and divergent from the others. All the peoples of the world today are preoccupied with the ebb…