• abundance

    “The Spirit breathing through the Holy Scriptures is food for all who hunger. God Who has given the revelation to His Prophets will surely give of His abundance daily bread to all those who ask Him faithfully.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks

  • community

    community

    “There are many ways of expressing the love principle; there is love for the family, for the country, for the race, there is political enthusiasm, there is also the love of community of interest in service. These are all ways and means of showing the power of love. Without any such means, love would be…

  • river

    river

    “Be thou as a flame of fire to My enemies and a river of life eternal to My loved ones, and be not of those who doubt.“ – Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í Prayers

  • exercise

    “God has created mankind from the same progeny in order that they may associate in good fellowship, exercise love toward each other and live together in unity and brotherhood.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace

  • sublimation

    “But according to the evidence of present world conditions divine philosophy—which has for its object the sublimation of human nature, spiritual advancement, heavenly guidance for the development of the human race, attainment to the breaths of the Holy Spirit and knowledge of the verities of God—has been outdistanced and neglected.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of…

  • shower

    shower

    “My God, Whom I worship and adore! I bear witness unto Thy unity and Thy oneness, and acknowledge Thy gifts, both in the past and in the present. Thou art the All-Bountiful, the overflowing showers of Whose mercy have rained down upon high and low alike, and the splendors of Whose grace have been shed…

  • summertime

    summertime

    “Then comes summertime, when the heat intensifies and growth and development manifest the fullness of their power. The life force reaches its plenitude in the vegetable kingdom: Fruits and crops appear, the harvest time arrives, the seed becomes the sheaf, and provision is made for the winter months.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions

  • burn

    “I beseech Thee … to make of my prayer a fire that will burn away the veils which have shut me out from Thy beauty, and a light that will lead me unto the ocean of Thy Presence.” (Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2008), CLXXXIII) From: Prayer and Devotional Life

  • field

    “Praised be God that there is now a school of this type in Ṭihrán where young maidens can, through His bounty, receive an education and with all vigour acquire the accomplishments of humankind. Erelong will women in every field keep pace with the men. Until now, in Persia, the means for women’s advancement were non-existent.…

  • children

    children

    “O ye children of the Kingdom! Give thanks unto God that, at this tender age, ye have entered into the Divine Kingdom. The bounty and bestowal of God have surrounded you. While ye were yet children, He chose you and elected you. Ye became the intimates of His mysteries, whilst those of riper age remained…

  • home

    home

    (On hiatus)

  • safety

    safety

    “The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.“ – Bahá’u’llahá, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh

  • submerged

    submerged

    “The majority of people are captives in the matrix of nature, submerged in the sea of materiality. We must pray that they may be reborn, that they may attain insight and spiritual hearing, that they may receive the gift of another heart, a new transcendent power, and in the eternal world the unending bestowal of…

  • flood

    flood

    The whole duty of man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him. Let none, therefore, consider the largeness or smallness of the receptacle. The portion of some might lie in the palm of a man’s hand, the portion of others might fill a…

  • employment

    employment

    “The employment that the Bahá’ís accept, the tasks and duties that they perform, should be of a kind whose benefits accrue to the nation as a whole and not such as are a means of profit to a small circle of high officials and a few select individuals.“ – Shoghi Effendi, Trustworthiness: A Cardinal Bahá’í…

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