Our societies face a crisis of truthfulness, where obfuscation, falsehood and lying have overcome and even taken the place of truth-seeking. How then can we restore truthfulness? To answer this...
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When my husband and I first saw the results of the tests on our new baby growing in my womb, we both cried. But after all the excellent advice from...
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Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however...
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A half-truth plagues the world, that we have five senses: our sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Each of these are observational mechanisms, yet we are rarely taught about our...
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Suffering – pain, misfortune, and misery – has always been a basic, essential, and unavoidable fact of human life. People experience three kinds of suffering: internal, intentional, and natural. The Pain...
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Since Baha’u’llah’s advent in the middle of the 19th century, humanity has witnessed a time of miraculous growth and global regeneration unprecedented in the annals of world history. The technological,...
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We live at a time in history when material civilization has overshadowed spiritual civilization. The Baha’i Faith aims to re-adjust that imbalance. With the advancement of science, we have witnessed...
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How can we increase our knowledge of God? The first step in that quest goes through the portal of self. Right from our initial moment of existence we must grow...
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The German-Jewish thinker and philosopher Hannah Arendt, who immigrated to the USA after the Nazi seizure of power, wrote in her 1957 New Yorker essay titled “Truth and Politics:” No...
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