Ryan Daniels

The 'Master Key' to self-mastery is self-forgetting. The road to the palace of life is through the path of renunciation. - #AbdulBaha #Bahai #Spirituality #Detachment #SpiritualGrowth (‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Star of the West, Vol. XVII, p. 348)

I hope that you will use your understanding to promote the unity and tranquillity of mankind, to give enlightenment and civilization to the people, to produce love in all around you, and to bring about the universal peace. - #AbdulBaha #Bahai #Spirituality #Love #Peace #Humanity (Paris Talks)

There are imperfections in every human being, and you will always become unhappy if you look toward the people themselves. But if you look toward God, you will love them and be kind to them, for the world of God is the world of perfection and complete mercy. Therefore, do not look at the shortcomings of anybody; see with the sight of forgiveness. The imperfect eye beholds imperfections. The eye that covers faults looks toward the Creator of souls. You must love and be kind to everybody, care for the poor, protect the weak, heal the sick, teach and educate the ignorant. - #AbdulBaha⠀ ⠀ #Bahai #Forgiveness #Kindness (The Promulgation of Universal Peace)

When calamity striketh, be ye patient and composed. However afflictive your sufferings may be, stay ye undisturbed, and with perfect confidence in the abounding grace of God, brave ye the tempest of tribulations and fiery ordeals. - #AbdulBaha⠀ ⠀ #bahai #spirituality #trials #difficulties #confidence⠀ Selections From the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá⠀

Thou hast asked Me concerning the nature of the soul. Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however acute, can ever hope to unravel. It is the first among all created things to declare the excellence of its Creator, the first to recognize His glory, to cleave to His truth, and to bow down in adoration before Him. If it be faithful to God, it will reflect His light, and will, eventually, return unto Him. If it fail, however, in its allegiance to its Creator, it will become a victim to self and passion, and will, in the end, sink in their depths. - Baha'u'llah #Bahai #Spirituality #Soul #God (Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh)

Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday. Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches... Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of evil and corrupt affection, nor let your endeavors be spent in promoting your personal interest - #Bahaullah #Bahai #Spirituality #Unity #SpiritualGrowth (Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 47)