When a soul has in it the life of the spirit, then does it
bring forth good fruit and become a Divine tree…I hope that the unspeakable
goodness of God will so strengthen you that the celestial quality of your soul,
which relates it to the spirit, will for ever dominate the material side, so
entirely ruling the senses that your soul will approach the perfections of the
Heavenly Kingdom. May your faces, being steadfastly set towards the Divine
Light, become so luminous that all your thoughts, words and actions will shine
with the Spiritual Radiance dominating your souls, so that in the gatherings of
the world you will show perfection in your life.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, November
17, 1911, Paris; ‘Paris Talks’)
