Life Vein
This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 326
Distance is annihilated and prevents not the close and intimate association of two souls that are closely attached in heart even though they may be in two different countries.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, "Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 101
Quote of the Day
Idal 10 Kalimat 183 B.E.
Fully alive to the unfailing efficacy of the power of Bahá’u’lláh, and armed with the essential weapons of wise restraint and inflexible resolve, let him wage a constant fight against the inherited tendencies, the corruptive instincts, the fluctuating fashions, the false pretences of the society in which he lives and moves.
Shoghi Effendi – Bahá’í Administration, p. 130