Beauty: San Antonio, USA
“Say: O people! Is it your wish to conceal the beauty of the Sun behind the veils of your own selfish desires…?”
Beauty: Boston, USA
We went to Crane Beach in Ipswich, MA, US, to celebrate the first day of the festival of Ridvan. I couldn’t take my eyes away from the beauty of these strange clouds. They seemed fleeting, fragile, substantial, ephemeral, soft and strong—all at the same time. Are you getting where I am going with this? “Turn [...]
Beauty: Colorado, USA
The blossoming beauty of our garden gives intense pleasure and deep satisfaction to my mind. Verdant greens, new buds, and the chatter of swallows and woodpeckers: the garden’s beauty is invested with meaning as my husband and I tend vegetable beds and our daughter enjoys playing on the grass, eating leaves. Every morning before breakfast [...]
Beauty: Calais, France
Sunrise over the port of Calais. “Love of beauty is taste, the creation of beauty is art.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Beauty: Manhattan, New York
Flower in one hand, phone in the other. “O Brother! Not every sea hath pearls; not every branch will flower, nor will the nightingale sing thereon. Then, ere the nightingale of the mystic paradise repair to the garden of God, and the rays of the heavenly morning return to the Sun of Truth-make thou an [...]
Beauty: Yinchuan, China
True beauty is silent and lives beyond “the murmur of syllables and sounds”. “O inmates of earth and heaven! Behold ye My beauty, and My radiance…” Baha’u’llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 136
Beauty: Chicago, USA
There is spiritual beauty and material beauty. Which do we think of when someone says this word? I stopped in at a salon near my house, where music was playing and the stylists were friendly (and willing to help me with my photography). “The lover’s teacher is the Loved One’s beauty, His face their lesson [...]
Beauty: Brooklyn, New York
Emerging. “I was preparing to make reply, when lo, the Tablet was suddenly ended, leaving My theme unfinished, and the pearl of Mine utterance unstrung.” Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah
Beauty: Quito, Ecuador
The beauty of love “If in a garden the flowers and fragrant herbs, the blossoms and fruits, the leaves, branches and trees are of one kind, of one form, of one color and of one arrangement, there is no beauty or sweetness, but when there is variety, each will contribute to the beauty and charm [...]
Beauty: Guam
A wizened “face” peers from beneath a withered orchid petal. “Mortal charm shall fade away, roses shall give way to thorns, and beauty and youth shall live their day and be no more. But that which eternally endureth is the Beauty of the True One, for its splendour perisheth not and its glory lasteth for [...]
Beauty: London, England
The London marathon was tough for some, but a piece of cake compared to what we’ve all got coming up. Just think, a human face at full exertion, that’s beautiful. “Whosoever quickens one soul in this Cause is like unto one quickening all the servants and the Lord shall bring him forth in the Day [...]
Beauty: Yangshuo, China
A boat ride along the Li River. Natural beauty unlike anything I have ever experienced. “Behold ye My beauty, and My radiance, and My revelation, and My effulgence. By God, the True One! I am Trustworthiness and the revelation thereof, and the beauty thereof. I will recompense whosoever will cleave unto Me, and recognize My [...]
Beauty: North Carolina, USA
Another perspective - the beauty of transformation. “The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering The more the ground is ploughed the better the seed will grow, the better the harvest will be. Just as the plough furrows the earth deeply, purifying it of weeds and thistles, so suffering and tribulation free [...]
Beauty: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Sometimes beauty is so apparent, just like a flower around thorns prickles, yet those thorns and prickles refuse to recognize it. “Consider the past. …How often have they expected His coming, how frequently have they prayed that the breeze of Divine mercy might blow, and the promised Beauty step forth from behind the veil of concealment, [...]
Beauty: Haifa, Israel
“Let my food, O my Lord, be Thy beauty, and my drink the light of Thy presence, and my hope Thy pleasure, and my work Thy praise, and my companion Thy remembrance, and my aid Thy sovereignty, and my dwelling-place Thy habitation, and my home the seat which Thou hast exalted above the limitations of them [...]
Beauty: Los Angeles, USA
Birds are impossible to work with. they are horrible at following directions. we took this shot at least 30 times until we were forced to call it a day. this is the last time i work with birds. “At the age of five or six the Blessed Beauty had a dream which He described to [...]
Beauty: Yorkshire, England
The patchwork quilt beauty of the North Yorkshire moors. Beauty inspired by agriculture. Agriculture has long been tied to spirituality, e.g in the Indus Valley. “Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, [...]
