It’s not that difficult to live longer. First you have to want to. Many depressed people don’t, for a lot of good or not-so-good reasons. When I took classes to...
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When we read in Matthew 22:36–40 about our Lord being questioned by the Pharisees as to which is the greatest commandment in the Law, He answers: Love the Lord your...
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As a graduate student, I had a series of vivid, hyper-real dreams—so I decided to see if I could determine what they meant. How did I do it? I read...
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A friend of mine who is a devout Christian once wrote to me and asked the following questions. He wanted me to answer them based on the Baha’i Writings. Below...
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Dreams have played a major role in religion—in fact, mystic dreams often accompany the inception of a new Faith: … the soul-shaking experience of Moses when confronted by the Burning...
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On a music streaming service this morning, I happened to hear one of the many recorded versions of the song “No Man Is an Island,” which I remembered singing it at summer...
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Having grown up in the tradition of the Baha’i Faith, regular daily devotions were always part of our household practice – including my parents saying prayers with me from a...
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I was intrigued by a profound statement from Abdu’l-Baha: The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although...
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The Baha’i teachings say that until the era when we achieve gender equality and universal education, we cannot even imagine the full spiritual powers an intergenerational family will reveal. In...
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Achieving our true spiritual station and practicing justice is a tall order, and will be extremely difficult to achieve without prayer. Prayer has the power not only to transform our...
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Have you ever wondered why you exist? Of course you have – that question occurs, at some point, to all of us. Science asks it, too, usually in this macro...
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The entire world has now become largely afflicted with the Western view of love as an event, in much the same way that most scholars mistakenly view creation as an...
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