Abdul-Baha Says 'Be Like The Butterfly'

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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

Nightingale Of Paradise Will Warble Its Melody

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by Glenn Franco Simmons

The war hysteria being discussed in world media and by various nations’ leaders is truly alarming. It is reminiscent of the eras of disquiet before the 20th Century’s two world wars. And, personally, it brings to mind an excerpt from “Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh”:

“The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then, will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.”