“Unless one accepts dire vicissitudes, he will not attain. To me prison is freedom, troubles rest me, death is life, and to be despised is honour. Therefore, I was happy all that time in prison. When one is released from…

Don’t Believe Every Stupid Thought You Have

  “…our ‘second birth’ begins where we leave off here. Therefore we would do well to pay careful attention to the daily task at hand, to make willful progress here and now. Whatever principles for progress may be operant in…

In the Apache language there is no word for ‘guilt.’ Our lives are like diamonds. When we are born we are pure and uncut. Each thing that happens to us in our lives teaches us how to reflect the light…

An Ever-Advancing Civilization Coherence Between the Spiritual and Material The emergence of the materially and spiritually prosperous global civilization associated with humanity’s age of maturity requires that the practical and spiritual aspects of life advance harmoniously together. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá states that…