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Physical health is considered a greatest gift of God:
“Although ill health is one of the unavoidable conditions of man, truly it is hard to bear. The bounty of good health is the greatest of all gifts.”
(Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 151)
The body is a carrier of the personality and spirit, and a […]
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Knowing and loving the Creator is the purpose of existence, and a requisite of nearness to God is “entrance into the Kingdom”.
“Having created the world and all that liveth and moveth therein, He, through the direct operation of His unconstrained and sovereign Will, chose to confer upon man the unique distinction and capacity to know […]
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The length of the annual migration of Monarchs is longer than most normal lifespans of this species of butterfly. The first population departs in August, and the second, third, or fourth generation returns in the spring, traveling a combined distance of 3,000 miles between Canada and Mexico. [1] The average wingspan of this […]
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‘Abdu’l-Baha writes that unity of mankind is the fundamental teaching brought by Messengers of God.
“All the divine Manifestations have proclaimed the oneness of God and the unity of mankind. They have taught that men should love and mutually help each other in order that they might progress. Now if this conception of religion be […]
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In seven locations throughout the world there is a Baha’i House of Worship. Baha’u’llah wrote the following regarding the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar (The Dawning-Place of the Praise of God):
“O people of the world! Build ye houses of worship throughout the lands in the name of Him Who is the Lord of all religions. Make them as […]
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“Therefore the Lord of mankind has caused His holy divine Manifestations to come into the world. He has revealed His heavenly books in order to establish spiritual brotherhood, and through the power of the Holy Spirit has made it practicable for perfect fraternity to be realized among mankind. And when through the breaths of the […]
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“Man is in the highest degree of materiality, and at the beginning of spirituality; that is to say, he is the end of imperfection and the beginning of perfection. He is at the last degree of darkness, and at the beginning of light; that is why it has been said that the condition of man […]
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Devon Gundry and a friend perfomed a beautiful song about marriage at the Northeast Baha’i Youth Festival during February 2006. A recording is below with words of a Baha’i prayer from which the lyrics are inspired and passages from the the Baha’i writings about “everlasting unity throughout all the worlds of God”. [1]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1853049007066400859
“O peerless […]
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Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories, 500 feet, from the side of a building on December 7, 2007 holding to a window washer platform. [1] After being given 24 pints of blood, 19 pints of plasma, an operation which involved opening the abdomen, and nine orthopedic operations, Alcides reached out to a nurse, later asking, […]
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In a recent article of the New York Times, “Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike“, Janet Rae-Dupree reports about the tendency of individual creativity to diminish in a particular field as expertise is attained. A difficulty to imagine not knowing details about an area of study once becoming an expert is described as the “curse […]