Look at one another with the eye of perfection;
look at Me, follow Me, be as I am; take no thought for yourselves or your
lives, whether ye eat or whether ye sleep, whether ye are comfortable, whether
ye are well or ill, whether ye are with friends or foes, whether ye receive
praise or blame; for all of these things ye must care not at all. Look at Me
and be as I am; ye must die to yourselves and to the world, so shall ye be born
again and enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Behold a candle how it gives its light.
It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give light. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from
an address, quoted by May Maxwell in ‘An Early Pilgrimage’)
