December, 2007
Motion out of Stillness
I’ve been reflecting lately on the need for stillness. In this frantic life, it is so easy to get lost in the constant mental calculations of possibilities and outcomes. But to get to the right answer, you need to ask the right question, and as one of my most favorite writers once said: There are [...]
Abdu’l Baha praying for my people
O ye close and dear friends of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá! In the Orient scatter perfumes, And shed splendours on the West. Carry light unto the Bulgar, And the Slav with life invest. (Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 270)
Point of my adoration
Tonight I watched with my parents a video dedicated to Baha’i Pilgrimage! Ah, what a joy to recall my visit to the point of the world’s adoration! What a blessing to be able to bring back those wonderful, spiritual, nurturing, transforming days! What a bounty to have gone on Pilgrimage! Praised be to God! My [...]
Best teaching method
From today’s Baha’i Readings: The sanctified souls should ponder and meditate in their hearts regarding the methods of teaching. From the texts of the wondrous, heavenly Scriptures they should memorize phrases and passages bearing on various instances, so that in the course of their speech they may recite divine verses whenever the occasion demandeth it, [...]
Tribute to a winged soul
Last night my dear wife’s paternal grandmother passed away. I will always remember her for her ecstatically joyful dance during our wedding celebration and for her sense of style expressed in the elegantly beautiful princess-life dresses she loved to wear. She was a very artistic lady with passion for life, delicate soul and genuine interest [...]
