I think friendship is the ultimate aspiration in social life. Friends does not come and go. They stay for ever. The capture your heart, expand you though and elevate your soul. I wish for everyone’s friendship. Bijan | |
The universities and colleges of the world must hold fast to three cardinal principles:
"First: Whole-hearted service to the cause of education, the unfolding of the mysteries of nature, the extension of the boundaries of science, the elimination of the causes of ignorance and social evils, a standard universal system of instruction, and. the diffusion of the lights of Knowledge and reality.
“Second: Service to the cause of morality, raising the moral tone of the students, inspiring them with the sublimest ethical ideals, teaching them altruism, inculcating in their lives the beauty of holiness and the excellency of virtue, and animating them with the graces and perfections of the religion of God.
"Third: -Service to the oneness of the world of humanity; so that each student may consciously realize that he is a brother' to all mankind irrespective of religion or race. The thoughts of universal peace must be instilled in the minds of all the scholars, in order that they may become the armies of peace, the real servants of the body politio-the world. God is the Father of all.. Mankind is His children. This globe is one home. Nations are the members of one family. The mothers in their homes, the teachers In the schools, the professors in the colleges, the presidents in the universities, must, teach these ideals to the young from the cradle to maturity |
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THIS IS FAITH
To walk where there is no path
To breathe where there is no air
To see where there is not light-
This is Faith.
To cry out in the silence,
The silence of the night,
And hearing no echo believe
And believe again and again-
This is Faith.
To hold pebbles and see jewels
To raise sticks and see forests
To smile with weeping eyes-
This is Faith.
To say: "God, I believe" when others deny,
"I hear" when there is no answer,
"I see" though naught is seen-
This is Faith.
And the fierce love in the heart,
The savage love that cries
Hidden Thou art yet there !
Veil Thy face and mute Thy tongue
yet I see and hear Thee, Love,
Beat me down to the bare earth,
Yet I rise and love Thee, Love !"
This is Faith.
Amatu'l-Baha
Ruhiyyih Khanum
| | | The human heart can go the length of God,
Dark and cold we may be, but this is no winter now.
The frozen misery of centuries cracks, breaks, begins to move,
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring,
Thank God our time is now,
When wrong comes up to meet us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take,
the greatest stride of soul man ever took.
Affairs are now soul size,
The enterprise is exploration into God,
But where are you making for,
It takes so many thousand years to wake,
but will you wake, for pity's sake..... | |
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