July 30

What captives of superstitions people are! What troubles they endure for the sake of name and fame! What fruit will these superstitions bear? All are transitory and perishable and no trace of them will remain. It will be as through they had never existed. They are sowing seeds in a barren land. Man ought to sow pure seeds in a fertile soil. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from an address, July 29, 1912, Dublin, USA; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’)