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If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

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Spiritual and Positive

Topic: Love, Compassion, & Kindness

“I charge you all that each one of you concentrate all the thoughts of your heart on love and unity. When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love. Thoughts of war bring destruction to all harmony, well-being, restfulness and content. Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and happiness… If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.“

'Abdu'l-Bahá (1844-1921)
Baha'i Faith
Paris Talks

Bahá, ‘Abdu’l. “Bahá'í Reference Library.” The Bahá'í Faith - The Website of the Worldwide Bahá'í Community, Bahai.org Home. Bahá’í International Community, www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/paris-talks/, [Paris Talks] pp. 29-30.

'Abdu'l-Bahá

Abdu’l-Baha, Paris Talks

Additional Abdu’l-Baha Quotes

“Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God’s holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God’s revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next. Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the diverse elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms. Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.”

–Abdu’l-Baha [Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha] p. 27.

“The message of the holy, divine Manifestations is love; the phenomena of creation are based upon love; the radiance of the world is due to love; the well-being and happiness of the world depend upon it. Therefore, I admonish you that you must strive throughout the human world to diffuse the light of love. The people of this world are thinking of warfare; you must be peacemakers. The nations are self-centered; you must be thoughtful of others rather than yourselves. They are neglectful; you must be mindful. They are asleep; you should be awake and alert. May each one of you be as a shining star in the horizon of eternal glory.”

–Abdu’l-Baha [The Promulgation of Universal Peace] p. 337.

Resources

  • Bahá’í Reference Library Writings and Talks of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Paris Talks
  • Paris Talks, Addresses Given by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá in 1911
  • The Eternal Rule: Concentrating Our Hearts on Love and Unity Jennifer Campbell•Nov 29, 2014

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