When you love a member of your family or a compatriot, let
it be with a ray of the Infinite Love! Let it be in God, and for God! Wherever
you find the attributes of God love that person, whether he be of your family
or of another. Shed the light of a boundless love on every human being whom you
meet, whether of your country, your race, your political party, or of any other
nation, colour or shade of political opinion. Heaven will support you while you
work in this in-gathering of the scattered peoples of the world beneath the
shadow of the almighty tent of unity.
You will be servants of God, who are dwelling near to Him,
His divine helpers in the service, ministering to all Humanity. All Humanity!
Every human being! never forget this!
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, Paris,
October 24, 1911, ‘Paris Talks’)
