I ask the Blessed Beauty to assist you
and confirm you. Wherever I go, you will be in my thoughts. I shall not forget
any one of you. I beg of God that you may become more enlightened, more
severed, more spiritual, more aflame and that you may be humble and submissive,
for as long as man does not consider himself to be good but regards himself as
weak and deficient, he progresses; but the moment he considers himself good and
says, `I am perfect', he falls into pride and retrogresses.
(Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha,
17 September 1912, Chicago, USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)
