When Mahvash flies from Tehran to the provincial city of Mashhad, one chilly morning in March, 2008, she fully expects to be home by evening. But she never returns. For...
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Many of us want to find a healthy relationship where we achieve growth, solace, and meaningful companionship. But how do we avoid turning our search for love into a competition?...
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Sometimes it feels like comparing yourself to others is inevitable. In a sense, it’s natural, right? We are social creatures, so we look to one another to try and figure...
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Baha’u’llah began his mystical treatise called The Hidden Words with this powerful passage: O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that...
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From sexual harassment to the separation of families to mass shootings, our nation and our world is drowning in tears, and anger will only keep us afloat for so long. ...
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When you embark on a journey of personal search, you have to be pretty dissatisfied with the status quo. Sometimes it starts off gradually—with a little itch of discontent over...
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The Baha’i teachings advocate for humanity and morality in our economic activities—and also their incorporation into our economic systems. But how does humanity and morality—spirituality, really—fit into an economic system?...
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In the Baha’i teachings, Baha’u’llah redefined the nature of evil, explaining that it is not a force in its own right. Evil is the absence of good in the same...
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O SON OF MAN! Sorrow not save that thou art far from Us. Rejoice not save that thou art drawing near and returning unto Us. O SON OF MAN! Rejoice...
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Create in me a pure heart, O my God, and renew a tranquil conscience within me, O my Hope! Through the spirit of power confirm Thou me in Thy Cause,...
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Can any religion of the past now serve the needs of a rapidly-globalizing humanity with its diverse spectrum of spiritual beliefs? If so, what religion and which branch of it...
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I doubt many readers would argue that we should scrap our country’s Constitution because of how it has been interpreted – yet that defines the substance of a repeated argument...
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Isn’t it curious that one ‘unknown’ or ‘unknowable’ may help in finding the key to another mystery? After all, that’s the way we usually gain knowledge – by starting with...
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Throughout our lives, we go through seasons of crisis and victory, of progress and failure, and of happiness and heartache. We also mark the passage of time by the changes...
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Although written in the 19th century, these famous lines might just as well be contemporary, because they capture our global civilization at its present stage of development: It was the...
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We’re all human, so from time to time, we despair, losing our optimism and hope. Even the messengers of God felt despair, as Shoghi Effendi reminded us in this letter...
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Ever had a day where it just felt like everything got on your nerves? Sometimes, it stems from deeper conflict, and other times from a build-up of small stressors. Here...
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I remember hanging out with a friend in Oregon that I had recently met who was about 10 years older than me. We’d hung out several times at community events...
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