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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A colleague sent me an email today lamenting, “I have two lists — one immediate (which grows ever longer) and the regular list which stays the same.” I enjoyed his wit, and...
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As social creatures, we naturally want to find a group of people we can connect with to be part of something bigger than ourselves. It’s easy to fall into the...
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Well, I entered 2025 with the flu. Even though it’s much milder thanks to modern medicine, it’s still rough. My appetite is low, my energy even lower. Being stuck in...
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In his travels through Europe and North America just over a century ago, Abdu’l-Baha spoke continuously of the future society that the practice of Baha’u’llah’s teachings would make possible. He...
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What we cannot avoid in our discussion about what constitutes human life—especially since we have defined death as the absence of it—is whether or not being human involves anything other...
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It might seem strange at first to realize that the Baha’i Faith promotes the harmony of science and religion. To many people think religion represents the opposite of science, in...
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Do science and the inner spiritual life ever collide or cohere? Can they work together? The Baha’i teachings answer those questions with a resounding yes. Although most of my more...
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