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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Be Like The Butterfly; Lover Of Light

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I am unable to find this translation in the new Authoritative Reference Library, but because it was approved for use in the past in my artwork, I am still using it with the stipulation that the former translation must have been updated.

“Therefore, man must be the seeker after the Reality, and he will find that Reality in each of the Sanctified Souls. He must be fascinated and enraptured, and attracted to the divine bounty; he must be like the butterfly who is the lover of the light from whatever lamp it may shine, and like the nightingale who is the lover of the rose in whatever garden it may grow.” ~ `Abdu’l-Bahá

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