October, 2008
Humbled by the Spirit
Just as I was fuming over the crashing of my new Vista laptop, I got this marvelous email in response to the invitation for the next session of our study circle (and all of a sudden, the annoyance with Vista and its instability disappeared): What a great delight it was to be in your home [...]
Rediscovering Mana
Last night’s study circle provided a wonderful opportunity to dig out from my “old” musical collection the wonderful music of Mana, the Australian youth music group which recorded two CDs based on the quotations from the Ruhi 1 and 2 study circles. Their first album, “Reflections on the Life of the Spirit” was the soundtrack [...]
Prayer Station – Open The Gate
How do you describe a day which started with an inconclusive attempt to scientifically establish truthfulness, culminated with celebrating the Birth of the Bab, and concluded with a prayer meeting and a study circle discussion which revolved around the idea that “truthfulness is the foundation of all human virtues”? God is all Glorious and His [...]
An elevator talk
Standing at the hallway, waiting for the elevator, I am holding a clear plastic cup full of water. A lady from another company on the same floor approaches me asking: Lady: Is this one? Me: Is this one what? Lady: One shot? Me: ? (I look puzzled as we both enter the elevator) Lady: One [...]
Feast cross-pollination
As to the Nineteen Day Feast, it rejoiceth mind and heart. If this feast be held in the proper fashion, the friends will, once in nineteen days, find themselves spiritually restored, and endued with a power that is not of this world. (Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 91) Last night Justin invited [...]
Fighting spiritual poverty
Today’s Blog Action Day is focused on fighting poverty. It is a worthwhile subject and I am sure many capable people will share wonderful man-made ideas to address this cause for suffering of billions of people on Earth. Needless to say, the Baha’i perspective on poverty and its spiritual dimension, based on statements by the [...]
Blog action day is tomorrow
Blog action day is tomorrow, or today — depending on what part of the world you are at. An initiative started by a fellow Baha’i in Australia, initiated this event to unify bloggers of all sorts to discuss the topic of poverty. As announced on the Baha’i News Service, the event very much fits with [...]
Day of two visions
12. O MAN OF TWO VISIONS! Close one eye and open the other. Close one to the world and all that is therein, and open the other to the hallowed beauty of the Beloved. (Baha’u’llah, The Persian Hidden Words) What a day this has been. God teaching me on both planes: on one side with [...]
Pondering the purpose of life
Just a few random thoughts before jumping into a “Go / No Go” meeting at work… Monday’s Prayer Station once again reminded me how much the question of the meaning of life is on people’s minds. I was reflecting last night on the value of journaling one’s thoughts. There is a qualitative difference between when [...]
Prayer Station – Tender Hearts
What a blessing tonight was! When it rains, it pours! I had ten people come to the devotional gathering tonight, two of whom were not yet Baha’is but had contacted us through the Arlington Baha’i website and were very much driven by their longing to seek spiritual truth and to find it in the Baha’i [...]
