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tiers
He said: ‘Bid them recite: “Is there any Remover of difficulties save God? Say: Praised be God! He is God! All are His servants, and all abide by His bidding!” Tell them to repeat it five hundred times, nay, a thousand times, by day and by night, sleeping and waking, that haply the Countenance of…
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rooted
“The main thing is to remain staunch and firmly rooted, and persevere to the end.“ – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá
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edible
“There are five outward material powers in man which are the means of perception—that is, five powers whereby man perceives material things. They are sight, which perceives sensible forms; hearing, which perceives audible sounds; smell, which perceives odours; taste, which perceives edible things; and touch, which is distributed throughout the body and which perceives tactile…
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abstract
[Through science, we] “comprehendeth the abstract by the aid of the concrete”. – Compilation on Scholarship
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cling
“Those who have rejected God and firmly cling to Nature as it is in itself are, verily, bereft of knowledge and wisdom.” – Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
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resting
“How many the nights which found the beasts of the field resting in their lairs, and the birds of the air lying in their nests, while this Youth languished in chains and fetters with none to aid or succour Him!“ – Bahá’u’lláh, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts