Today the confirmations of the Kingdom of Abha are with
those who renounce themselves, forget their own opinions, cast aside
personalities and are thinking of the welfare of others. Whosoever has lost
himself has found the universe and the inhabitants thereof. Whosoever is
occupied with himself is wandering in the desert of heedlessness and regret.
The "master-key" to self-mastery is self-forgetting. The road to the
palace of life is through the path of renunciation.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, Star of the
West, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 348; in compilation ‘Psychology and Knowledge of Self by Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi
Effendi and Universal House of Justice’, compiled by Research Department
of the Universal House of Justice)
