Speech (Qawl) 172 B.E.

Haifa, Israel

“Tan potente es el poder de la unidad que puede iluminar la tierra entera.”
-Baha’u’llah
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Sydney, Australia

“A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding.”
-Baha’u’llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
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Arteara, Spain

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts.”
-Baha’u’llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
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Los Angeles, USA

At the resting place of Thornton Chase, the first Baha’i in the West.

“This is the illumined resting place of the holy soul, Thornton Chase, who is shining in the horizon of eternal life ever like a star.”
-Abdu’l-Baha
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Wicklow National Park, Ireland

“Verily, I say unto thee, the Covenant of God and His Alliance is a Lamp diffusing lights from the Supreme Concourse unto the horizons of the earth and heaven. Whosoever hath this Divine Lamp before his face, his forehead shall glisten with manifest light and his speech shall take effect in all minds and spirits, and God shall assist him by the power which penetrateth the essences of things.”
-Abdu’l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha
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Brisbane, Australia

“When a soul has in it the life of the spirit, then does it bring forth good fruit and become a divine tree.”
-‘Abdu’l-Baha, Paris Talks

Here the hands represent the soul
in action and on that hand
is the imprint of the divine tree.
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Kyrgyzstan

“Thou knowest, O my Lord, that I am but one of Thy servants. I have tasted of the sweetness of Thy speech, and acknowledged Thy unity and Thy singleness, and set my face towards the Source of Thy most excellent names and the Dayspring of Thy transcendent attributes, and wished to be enabled by Thee to immerse myself beneath the ocean of Thy oneness and to be submerged by the mighty waters of Thy unity.”
-Baha’u’llah, Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah
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Oak Hill, USA

“O My Brother! Hearken to the delightsome words of My honeyed tongue, and quaff the stream of mystic holiness from My sugar-shedding lips. Sow the seeds of My divine wisdom in the pure soil of thy heart, and water them with the water of certitude, that the hyacinths of My knowledge and wisdom may spring up fresh and green in the sacred city of thy heart.”
-Baha’u’llah, The Hidden Words