A Hollow Reed This reed is a Perfect Man Who is likened to a reed, and the manner of its likeness is this: when the interior of a reed is empty and free from all matter, it will produce beautiful…
A Hollow Reed
What is stress?
“RELAX, YOU ARE NOT THE DOER” What is stress? Stress is the tension between ‘what is’ in this moment, and your image of how this moment ‘should’ be. Stress is a narrow focus on a mental list of ‘things to…
Why Are Animals Altruistic?
Researchers at the Laboratoire d’Écologie at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Ecole Normale Supérieure/CNRS) and the Royal Holloway College (London, United Kingdom) have just explained the evolution of altruistic behavior in animals. In nature animals have been observed cooperating,…
Conversation with God
“Prayer,” says `Abdu’l-Bahá, “is conversation with God.” In order that God may make known His mind and will to human beings, He must speak to us in a language which we can understand, and this He does through the guidance…
INDEPENDENT and UNFETTERED INVESTIGATION OF THE TRUTH
Sam Saté-Askew First Principle Baha’i Teachings: INDEPENDENT and UNFETTERED INVESTIGATION OF THE TRUTH “The first teaching of Bahá’u’lláh is the duty incumbent upon all to investigate reality. What does it mean to investigate reality? It means that man must forget…
The Devotional Attitude
The Devotional Attitude In order that we may attain the spiritual condition in which conversation with God becomes possible, `Abdu’l-Bahá says: We must strive to attain to that condition by being separated from all things and…