lessan on Jun 25th, 2007A daily prayer
Only Beloved! With a heart on fire
And all my longings set in one desire
To make my soul a many-stringed lyre
For Thy dear hand to play,
I bend beneath Thy mercy-seat and pray
That in the strength of perfect love I may
Tread with firm feet the red and mystic way
Whereto my hopes aspire.
I have forgotten all for love […]
lessan on Oct 31st, 2006Choosing a guide
The Lord of the world saith: O servants! Forsake your own desires and seek that which I have desired for you. Walk ye not without one to guide you on the way, and accept ye not the words of every guide. How numerous the guides who have gone astray and failed to discover the straight […]
lessan on Oct 31st, 2006Pity the deprived
O servants of God! Deprived souls are heedless of this triumphant Day, and chilled hearts have no share of the heat of this blazing Fire.
(Bahá’u’lláh, The Tabernacle of Unity, p.74)
lessan on Oct 31st, 2006How to treat a brother
The children of men are all brothers, and the prerequisites of brotherhood are manifold. Among them is that one should wish for one’s brother that which one wisheth for oneself. Therefore, it behoveth him who is the recipient of an inward or outward gift or who partaketh of the bread of heaven to inform and […]
lessan on Oct 31st, 2006What’s in store
Words as mild as milk?
… an enlightened man of wisdom should primarily speak with words as mild as milk, that the children of men may be nurtured and edified thereby and may attain the ultimate goal of human existence which is the station of true understanding and nobility.
(Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 172)
Such is the […]
lessan on Apr 19th, 2006To sleep or not to sleep
I came accross a post regarding sleep on Roya’s blog. I found some guidance on the issue, which I then proceeded to dichotomise: