March 19

This is the springtime of Bahá’u’lláh. The verdure and foliage of spiritual growth are appearing in great abundance in the gardens of human hearts. Know ye the value of these passing days and vanishing nights. Strive to attain a station of absolute love one toward another. By the absence of love, enmity increases. By the exercise of love, love strengthens and enmities dwindle away. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, excerpt from a talk given in New York, 12 April, 1912; ‘The Promulgation of Universal Peace’)