Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia
“O ye My Branches! A might force, a consummate power lieth concealed in the world of being. Fix your gaze upon it and upon its unifying influences, and not upon the differences which appear from it.”
-Baha’u’llah, Kitab-i-Ahd
Ridvan Garden, Israel
Regarding ‘Abdu’l-Baha: ” … above all, the sense of power mingled with gentleness that invested His whole being with a rare majesty of spiritual exaltation that both set Him apart, and yet that brought Him near to the lowliest soul,—it was all this, and much more that can never be defined, that have left with His many … friends, memories that are ineffaceable and unspeakably precious.”
–Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By
Milan, Italy
“Sufi mystics say the secret of the Qur’an lies
in the verse Al-Fatiha,
And the secret of the Al-Fatiha lies in
Bismillahhirrahmannirrahim
And the quintessence of Bismillah is the letter ba,
And there is a dot below that letter….
The dot underneath the B embodies the entire
universe….”
-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Adelaide, Australia
The roots and trunk of one of the iconic Moreton Bay Fig trees (Ficus macrophylla) in Botanic Park, Adelaide.
“O THOU blossom on the Tree of Life! Happy art thou to have girded thy loins in service; to have risen with all thy power in the promulgation of the divine teachings, to have convened gatherings and to have striven for the exaltation of the Word of God.”
-Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá
Chicago, USA
A photo of my daughter Marzieh, which was part of the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb celebration “750”, an international collaborative photographic project which showed 750 hands holding candles, recall the teachings, the sacrifices, and the martyrdom of the Báb.
“Say: Glorified art Thou, O my God! I implore Thee by the Dawning-Place of Thy signs and by the Revealer of Thy clear tokens to grant that I may, under all conditions, hold fast the cord of Thy loving providence and cling tenaciously to the hem of Thy generosity.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Tablet for the Birth of the Báb, Days of Remembrance
Haifa, Israel
“The Kingdom is God’s, the Lord of all names, Who is come with world-embracing sovereignty!”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Tablet for the Birth of the Báb, Days of Remembrance