The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we … - Shoghi Effendi

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Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail. . . . the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

Shoghi Effendi

The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

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The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

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For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.

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The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this we must look to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

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Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

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We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions.

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