A Comparison of Leadership and Service
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“O concourse of divines! Fling away idle fancies and imaginings, and turn, then, towards the Horizon of Certitude. I swear by God! All that ye possess will profit you not, neither all the treasures of the earth, nor the leadership ye have usurped. Fear God, and be not of the lost ones.”
Baha’u’llah, The Proclamation of […]
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Meditation and Happiness - A perspective from the Baha’i Faith and a Buddhist monk
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Matthieu Ricard is an author and photographer who once served as a molecular biologist and later became a Buddhist monk in the Himayalas. In the video below, Matthieu discusses the nature of happiness and research that a state of well-being can be cultivated by training of the mind.
A starting point of the discussion is […]
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The Flexibility of Social Reality
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Paul Lample, the most recently elected member serving on the Universal House of Justice, presented a series of talks to youth at the 2006 Northeast Baha’i Youth Festival in February. A focal point of the discussion was the flexible nature of human reality and striving “to translate that which hath been written into reality […]
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“One of the Great Spiritual Laws of Life” - Knowledge of Self through Service
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Gaining wisdom from the Teachings of Baha’u’llah is compared to searching in the depths of the ocean and discovering pearls:
“This is the Voice of God, if ye do but hearken. This is the Day Spring of the Revelation of God, did ye but know it…. This is the manifest and hidden Secret; would that ye […]
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