How good it is if the friends be as close as sheaves of
light, if they stand together side by side in a firm unbroken line. For now
have the rays of reality from the Sun of the world of existence, united in
adoration all the worshippers of this light; and these rays have, through
infinite grace, gathered all peoples together within this wide-spreading
shelter; therefore must all souls become as one soul, and all hearts as one
heart. Let all be set free from the multiple identities that were born of
passion and desire, and in the oneness of their love for God find a new way of
life.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
