Haifa, Israel
“El día de la aparición de las Santas Manifestaciones es la primavera espiritual, es el esplendor divino, es la munificencia celestial, es la brisa vivificadora, y es el surgimiento del Sol de la Realidad.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Contestación a unas Preguntas
“O Thou peerless and loving Lord! Though capacity and worthiness are lacking, and it is infinitely hard to withstand tribulations, yet worthiness and capacity are gifts vouchsafed by Thee. O Lord! Give us capacity and make us worthy, that we may evince the most great steadfastness, renounce this world and all its people, kindle the fire of Thy love, and even as candles, burn bright with a consuming flame and shed abroad our radiance.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, newly translated prayers
Ladysmith, Canada
‘Look ye not upon the present, fix your gaze upon the times to come. In the beginning, how small is the seed, yet in the end it is a mighty tree. Look ye not upon the seed, look ye upon the tree, and its blossoms, and its leaves and its fruits.’
-‘Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
Mallorca, Spain
“My strongest sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are with those artists in whom I see the soul at work most strongly.“
–Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo van Gogh – March 1884 (“Letters of Vincent van Gogh” page 272)
Brisbane, Australia
“Thank thou God that thou hast stepped into the arena of existence in such a blessed Age and hast opened thine ears and thine eyes in such a Promised Day. The Splendor of the Sun of Truth thou hast beheld and the divine Call thou hast heard. To thine ultimate desire thou hast attained and from the sweetness of the love of God thou hast tasted.”
-‘Abdu’l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 538
Assateague Island, USA
“The third station is that of the divine appearance and heavenly splendor: it is the Word of God, the Eternal Bounty, the Holy Spirit. It has neither beginning nor end, for these things are related to the world of contingencies and not to the divine world. For God the end is the same thing as the beginning. So the reckoning of days, weeks, months and years, of yesterday and today, is connected with the terrestrial globe; but in the sun there is no such thing—there is neither yesterday, today nor tomorrow, neither months nor years: all are equal. In the same way the Word of God is purified from all these conditions and is exempt from the boundaries, the laws and the limits of the world of contingency. Therefore, the reality of prophethood, which is the Word of God and the perfect state of manifestation, did not have any beginning and will not have any end; its rising is different from all others and is like that of the sun.”
-‘Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions