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it’s Saturday…deaming of us in Bahjí.

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taking me back to 2011... [1 week! eeek!]

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duck friend for the long weekend...

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into production today...<3

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“I don’t know if you’ll understand that one can speak poetry just by arranging colours well”. Vincent Van Gogh, 12 Nov 1888

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the mysterious

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Albert Einstein

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home, by my fellow-nest-dweller

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Only when the lamp of search, of earnest striving, of longing desire, of passionate devotion, of fervid love, of rapture, and ecstasy, is kindled within the seeker’s heart, and the breeze of His loving-kindness is wafted upon his soul, will the darkness of error be dispelled, the mists of doubts and misgivings be dissipated, and the lights of knowledge and certitude envelop his being.

The Kitab Iqan

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about Meditation, from Paris talks

Bahá’u’lláh says there is a sign (from God) in every phenomenon: the sign of the intellect is contemplation and the sign of contemplation is silence, because it is impossible for a man to do two things at one time—he cannot both speak and meditate.

It is an axiomatic fact that while you meditate you are speaking with your own spirit. In that state of mind you put certain questions to your spirit and the spirit answers: the light breaks forth and the reality is revealed.

You cannot apply the name “man” to any being void of this faculty of meditation; without it he would be a mere animal, lower than the beasts.

Through the faculty of meditation man attains to eternal life; through it he receives the breath of the Holy Spirit—the bestowal of the Spirit is given in reflection and meditation.

The spirit of man is itself informed and strengthened during meditation; through it affairs of which man knew nothing are unfolded before his view. Through it he receives Divine inspiration, through it he receives heavenly food.

Meditation is the key for opening the doors of mysteries. In that state man abstracts himself: in that state man withdraws himself from all outside objects; in that subjective mood he is immersed in the ocean of spiritual life and can unfold the secrets of things-in-themselves. To illustrate this, think of man as endowed with two kinds of sight; when the power of insight is being used the outward power of vision does not see.

This faculty of meditation frees man from the animal nature, discerns the reality of things, puts man in touch with God.

This faculty brings forth from the invisible plane the sciences and arts. Through the meditative faculty inventions are made possible, colossal undertakings are carried out; through it governments can run smoothly. Through this faculty man enters into the very Kingdom of God.

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If only the friends could realize it, the glory of our Faith is not that people with unique abilities do the work of the Cause, but that it is done by the sacrifice of loving and devoted souls who arise selflessly to undertake work they feel themselves incompetent, sometimes, to achieve. God works through them and endows them with gifts they did not dream they could ever possess. - Shoghi Effendi

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☕️runs. I think this was our favourite @pcoffeebrewers (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpW0JMjtrqJVQIEDVGwf1CXMxKKWUPwIwfhZd80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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details ✨ #design https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDBwIItPFFkbpE1yeKF9aRNr_O6447lSHl4yw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.

Hazrat Inayat Khan