Self-Desire

Verily, those who withhold themselves from the shelter of the Branch are indeed lost in the wilderness of perplexity; and are consumed by the heat of self-desire, and are of those who perish.

Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 205
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