Nature has endowed adolescent boys with the strength, agility, and physical stamina they’ve needed since the age when tribal life depended on the traditionally manly skills of the daily hunt. ...
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Do natural disasters mean that God is mad at humanity? This subject is too big for a text conversation, yet a friend and I began sharing some random thoughts via...
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How big a role does what we say, and how and when we say it, play in our lives? How can our speech be used to better ourselves and serve...
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We’ve all felt our own anger, and we’ve probably all wondered, after the rage subsides, what to do about it. How can we control it, and move past it? “Where...
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Do you ever think “I really need more spirituality in my life?” You’re not alone—just about everyone feels that way, at some point in their development. But how, and where,...
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The Baha’i teachings caution us against fabricating false imaginations of our Creator — and also warn us about visualizing false imaginations of death. In the Baha’i view, a spiritual existence...
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How do the world’s most renowned scientists and theorists regard the spiritual realm? Can science and spirituality, so long at odds, find common ground? Can a scientist believe in the...
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On the Twelfth Day of Ridvan, the time for Baha’u’llah’s departure and exile from Baghdad finally arrived. For most, exile would have been a disgrace – but for Baha’u’llah, it...
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Some BahaiTeachings.org readers, after reading my recent essay called Dreams and Visions of the Soul, wondered about human dreams and how they compare to animal dreams. They left these comments...
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…in the search for truth man must weigh religious questions in the balance of science and reason. God has given us rational minds for this purpose, to penetrate all things,...
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Baha’is follow the teachings of Baha’u’llah, the prophet and founder of the Baha’i Faith, and every year Baha’i communities around the world joyously commemorate their Faith’s teachings of love and...
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Today, more and more people recognize that we are spiritual beings, that we can only obtain the ultimate happiness if we learn how to live an inner life. How can...
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Have you ever done something you deeply regretted? We all have. Afterwards you probably asked yourself: how can I avoid doing that again? We can scarcely get through life without...
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We’ve all been through this: you go somewhere, and even though you’ve never been there before, you know you’ve been there before. Or you have a new experience, meet a...
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The Baha’i teachings advise everyone to seek competent physicians when they’re ill — yet another reflection of the primary Baha’i principle of the agreement of science and religion. Seeking the...
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This material world — who could imagine anything more beautiful? The ocean waves at dawn, an old-growth forest in spring, the roaring spume of a Yosemite waterfall, a baby kit...
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Every religion asks us an important question: what’s our spiritual responsibility? In other words, does each person have a personal duty to God? In our modern, individualistic, materialistic, largely ego-centered...
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Starting today, and for the next twelve days, Baha’is all around the world will celebrate Ridvan, which means “paradise,” the holiest and most joyous time of the Baha’i year. Pronounced...
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We can only understand the afterlife by analogy – because we can’t describe the soul in absolute terms like the physical phenomena of this world, or explain it in conditional...
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Why are we here? What’s our purpose? What is it that we’re supposed to do in this life? Have you ever asked yourself these perplexing questions? You’re not alone –...
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