When in prayer we are freed from all outward things and turn
to God, then it is as if in our hearts we heard the voice of God. Without words
we speak, we communicate, we converse with God and hear the answer. It is said
that Moses in the wilderness heard the voice of God. But that wilderness, that
holy land was his own heart. All of us when we attain to a true spiritual
condition can hear the voice of God speaking to us in that wilderness. We must
strive to attain to that condition by being separated from all things and from
the people of the world and by turning to God alone. It will take some effort
on the part of man to attain to that condition but he must work for it, strive
for it. We can attain to it by thinking and caring less for material things and
more for the spiritual. The further we go from the one, the nearer we are to
the other the choice is ours! (Words of ‘Abdul-Baha; extract from a talk given
to Miss Laura Barney; Star of the West, vol. 8, no. 4, May 17, 1917)
