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Stop Mind Chatter with 5 Exercises for Your Mental Muscles
Our brains produce as many as 50,000 thoughts per day—and 95% of these thoughts are repeated the next day, reflecting our mindset and beliefs. So this means that every day...
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Youth conference photo essay
The Effects of Faith on Self-Knowledge
What is faith? If you ask people, you’ll get different answers depending on experience, age, belief, and knowledge. Essentially, faith means confidence in your own system of beliefs. Through faith,...
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A Mighty Mystery: Who Was Abdu’l-Baha to Those Who Met Him?
Worldwide, Baha’is and others are coming to understand the person of Abdu’l-Baha more clearly as we observe the 100th anniversary of his passing. Who was this man, and what did...
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Promises About the Equality of Women and Men
How to Find True Happiness and Greatness
In modern life, we receive daily messages, from every form of media, about who we are and what will make us happy. Just one evening of watching television commercials will...
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“Two Hundred Years of Hidden History”: Film explores Bahá’í contributions to Azerbaijani society
Ask Yourself: Why Do I Believe in My Religion?
It’s a deceptively simple question — Why do I believe in my religion? — but it’s also probably one of the most important questions anyone can ask. If I can’t...
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I Love You, and I Don’t Want to Fight
Here we go again! Every time we need to discuss something, we have trouble doing it without fighting. Help! Having effective discussions and reaching peaceful, workable agreements often challenges married...
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Mona: This Poem Could Set the World on Fire
She was vivacious. She was joyous. She was focused. She dreamed of becoming a doctor. She was a 17-year old high school student. They hanged her. She was Iranian, but...
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When the Creator Speaks, How Can We Hear?
Consider this idea: we have a Creator, and the Creator always speaks to us, whether we’re listening or not. You may believe this idea or disbelieve it, but just give...
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How to Die Without Fear: The Positive Death Movement
Our cultures condition us to react with an enormous amount of fear and silence when the subject of death comes up – but it doesn’t have to be that way,...
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Family camp for Chinese families sparks sense of community life in Southern California
Once Upon a Tomorrow – A Children’s Book About Progressive Revelation
A Spiritual Case for Embracing Sobriety
When I first learned about the Baha’i Faith, its beautiful principles attracted me – strongly. I really had a difficult time with the thought of giving up alcohol, however. Not...
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Want to Change Your Life? First, Change Your Thoughts
If the soul identifies itself with the material world it remains dark, for in the natural world there is corruption, aggression, struggles for existence, greed, darkness, transgression and vice. If...
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In Conversation: Fostering vibrant communities in the UK
How the Soul Deals with Suffering
O Son of Man! If adversity befall thee not in My path, how canst thou walk in the ways of them that are content with My pleasure? If trials afflict...
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Knowing Yourself and Attaining True Freedom
Freedom is one of the most important aspects of happiness. All human beings desire to be free, but there is a difference between the kind of freedom that leads to...
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