I’ve always held a negative impression of fate, and a more positive one of destiny. What’s the distinction, you ask? If both fate and destiny mean that things happen through...
The post Do You Believe in Fate or Destiny? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
We humans have a dual nature – we can act more savagely than the most voracious predator, or we can evince a caring, compassionate aspect that goes back more than...
The post Overcoming Violence with Love appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
We tend to think of refined people as those with good taste, subtlety, and wisdom rather than ignorance, crudeness and vulgarity. Do you see yourself as refined? The Baha’i teachings frequently employ the word latafah—Arabic...
The post Making Virtues Your Personal Development Goals appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
Today, when scientists examine the question of our inner human life and why it exists, they attempt to solve a conundrum called the “Hard Problem of Consciousness.” In a nutshell,...
The post Epigenetics Proves that We’re Not Just Physical Creatures appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
From a big picture perspective, all of reality – everything in the entire creation originating from the Creator – is intricately tied together in a delicate balance of wholeness and...
The post Understanding the Nature of Evolution Itself appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
We often feel frustrated by our failures on the path to do what we know is right, accomplish what we set out to do, and become our true selves. Is...
The post Taming the Inner Animal: How the Lower Self Evolves appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
If you live in the developed world like I do you enjoy certain advantages that a lot of people in other places do not: electricity, running water, plentiful food and...
The post Entitlement: Detrimental to Your Spiritual Health appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
In the past century, science has completely overhauled the entire concept of the macrocosm in cosmology—as well as the microcosm, in particle physics. In previous essays in this series,...
The post How Big was that Bang? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
The philosophers of Greece — such as Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and others — were devoted to the investigation of both natural and spiritual phenomena. In their schools of teaching they...
The post Do You Believe in Creation or Eternity? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
God has created the world as one — the boundaries are marked out by man. God has not divided the lands… That is why Baha’u’llah says: “Let not a man...
The post Extreme Poverty and Extreme Wealth, Explained appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
Scientists have a term for the all-too-human tendency to accept what supports our beliefs while rejecting any other information: they call it confirmation bias. You’ve heard that old saying “Don’t...
The post Confirmation Bias—Why We Don’t Always Believe the Facts appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
Click here to read Part 1: I Believe God Exists Those without a belief in God argue that humans come from nature – that no God exists, just a wondrously...
The post Proof that God Exists appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
Environmental protection, Pope Francis points out in his Laudato Si’ encyclical, cannot be assured solely on the basis of financial cost-benefit calculations. The health of the Earth, in other words,...
The post You Can’t Eat Money appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
Do you ever complain? I sometimes find myself doing it, and then I realize I should work on eliminating all those negative and unproductive complaints from my life. We’ve all...
The post How I Stopped Complaining and Learned to Accept Life appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
The Devil: what power he holds over human thought! We have given him many names: Satan, Diablo, Prince of Darkness, Beast, and the Serpent. In human history we have envisioned...
The post Do You Know Who the Devil Is? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
One of the greatest heroes of the Baha’i Faith, Mulla Husayn – the first to accept the Bab, the forerunner of the Baha’i revelation – came to his new belief...
The post How Religion Can Be a Barrier to True Spirituality appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
On a religious forum I ran across an essay on Baha’is and the United Nations in which a woman I’ll call “Jen” made a series of statements about Baha’i belief...
The post The Baha’i Faith, Christian Prophecy, and the Promised Peace appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
I work voluntarily with the sick, and some of them have serious illnesses. Quite understandably, many patients and their loved ones suffer considerable anxiety. It must be a huge...
The post Why Does God Allow Illness and Suffering? appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
Any realistic view of our present global situation must acknowledge that we are experiencing rapid political, social, and environmental deterioration. Unfortunately, parallels to the storm clouds that gathered before World...
The post We Must Face the Risks to the World’s Future – Now appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
One day in my twin sons’ Baha’i-inspired children’s class I heard this quote from the Baha’i writings: “There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer.” Nothing sweeter. ...
The post Nothing Sweeter: Nurturing a Practice of Prayer appeared first on BahaiTeachings.org.
