Haifa, Israel
“O peoples of the world! Give ear unto the call of Him Who is the Lord of Names, Who proclaimeth unto you from His habitation in the Most Great Prison: ‘Verily, no God is there but Me, the Powerful, the Mighty, the All-Subduing, the Most Exalted, the Omniscient, the All-Wise.'”
-Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Seat of the Universal House of Justice
New York City, USA
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
-Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Brisbane, Australia
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
I matched this quote and image, because the gentle art of henna, can be a way for people to spend time together to build friendship and community. We had a henna workshop recently, which uplifted all who attended. Whilst we learnt to apply the henna we talked about traveling and feeling connected to the world. There were many nationalities, experiences, cultures and spiritual backgrounds in our gathering, and in our diversity we also felt oneness and unity.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
“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.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
Louisville, USA
“… all names and attributes return unto these sublime and sanctified Luminaries. Indeed, all names are to be found in their names, and all attributes can be seen in their attributes. Viewed in this light, if thou wert to call them by all the names of God, this would be true, as all these names are one and the same as their own Being.”
-Baha’u’llah, Gems of Divine Mysteries
Da Nang, Vietnam
“…[T]he children of the Kingdom sow seeds in the fertile soil of Truth, that will eventually spring up and bring forth many a harvest and shall forever bestow upon mankind its increase and bountiful grace. They shall obtain eternal life, attain unto the imperishable bounty, and shine even as radiant stars in the firmament of the Divine Kingdom.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, quoted in Star of the West; from His very last Tablet, revealed to the Bahá’ís of Stuttgart
The season of the rice harvest approaches in Vietnam, and I call upon the name of God, the All-Bountiful, meditating on what makes a bountiful spiritual harvest.
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