Names

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Names: New York, USA

Golriz Lucina Gundry © “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” -Khalil Gibran

Lauren_chicago_names2011

Names: Chicago, USA

Lauren Herrmann © “Say: Think ye that your allegiance to His Cause can ever profit Him, or your repudiation of its truth cause Him any loss? No, by My Self, the All-Subduing, the Inaccessible, the Most High! Tear ye asunder the veils of names and cleave ye their kingdom. By My Beauty! He Who is [...]

SarahJ_Guam_Names2011

Names: Guam

Sarah Johnson © “O peoples of the world! Cast away, in My name that transcendeth all other names, the things ye possess, and immerse yourselves in this Ocean in whose depths lay hidden the pearls of wisdom and of utterance, an ocean that surgeth in My name, the All-Merciful. Thus instructeth you He with Whom [...]


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Names: Sydney, Australia

Fiona Gohari © Names, are nothing but everything. “Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.” Mohandas Gandhi

Sholeh_Chicago_Names2011

Names: Chicago, USA

Sholeh Loehle © The hotels on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago were a haven for weary travelers in the 1950s and 60s. Most of them are now demolished, but their signs remain, evoking a more prosperous time. “Say, by reason of your remembering Him Whom God shall make manifest and by extolling His name, God will [...]

Bobby_Palermo_Names2011

Names: Palermo, Sicily

Bobby Aazami © Taken at midnight, during contemplation. “No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson


ChadMauger_Haifa_Names2011

Names: Haifa, Israel

Chad Mauger © “Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment. Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation of Providence [...]

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Names: Vancouver, Canada

“O God, my God! Thou art my Hope and my Beloved, my highest Aim and Desire! With great humbleness and entire devotion I pray to Thee to make me a minaret of Thy love in Thy land, a lamp of Thy knowledge among Thy creatures, and a banner of divine bounty in Thy dominion. Number [...]

Leila Names

Names: Colorado, USA

Can a giraffe in a zoo still be called a giraffe?


TowfighNamesAsma

Names: Boston, USA

Thinking these days about the outward things, and not wanting to cling to them, and not wanting to forget the inner things. “Methinks ye have clung to outward things, and forgotten the inner things, and say that which ye do not. Ye are lovers of names, and appear to have given yourselves up to them.” [...]

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Names: London, England

The biker is fearless, steadfast, trusting, and not dwelling on the separation of ’names.’ No room for analysis here, no way! Nothing but heart. :-) “We found you, as We found most men, worshipping names which they mention during the days of their life, and with which they occupy themselves. No sooner do the Bearers of these names [...]

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Names: Almaty, Kazakhstan

“Through the mere revelation of the word “Fashioner,” issuing forth from His lips and proclaiming His attribute to mankind, such power is released as can generate, through successive ages, all the manifold arts which the hands of man can produce. This, verily, is a certain truth. No sooner is this resplendent word uttered, than its animating [...]


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Names: San Antonio, Texas

“Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth is a direct evidence of the revelation within it of the attributes and names of God, inasmuch as within every atom are enshrined the signs that bear eloquent testimony to the revelation of that Most Great Light. Methinks, but for the potency of that revelation, no [...]

Cool

Names: Los Angeles, USA

The names of God define creation. ….in which case “cool” is most certainly one of the names of the Almighty!

Children's Classes

Names: Kranodar. Russia

Children Classes. “God grant that the light of unity may envelop the whole earth, and that the seal, “the Kingdom is God’s”, may be stamped upon the brow of all its peoples.” Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, Baha’u’llah


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Names: New York, USA

DUMBO neighbourhood (Brooklyn) Quote: I confused things with their names: that is belief. Jean-Paul Sartre

Cards

Names: Brighton, England

A deck of cards are flicked up into the summer sky, outside the Indo-Saracenic styled Royal Pavilion in Brighton. Each card with its own attribute  and name, albeit limited to those in the standard 52 card pack. Mankind, unlike the pack of cards, is less limited…. “Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth [...]

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Names: Chicago, USA

As I walked down the pier at sunset, strangers nodded at me, children dove off the side, and couples smiled into each other’s eyes.  I wanted to stop each person and ask their story. Instead we just said hello, and kept walking. “If thou art sailing upon the sea of God’s Names, which are reflected [...]


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Names: Vancouver, Canada

On our visit to Vancouver Island. “When, however, thou dost contemplate the innermost essence of all things, and the individuality of each, thou wilt behold the signs of thy Lord’s mercy in every created thing, and see the spreading rays of His Names and Attributes throughout all the realm of being. . .”-’Abdu’l-Baha, Selections From [...]