Pray that your hearts may be cut from yourselves and from
the world, that you may be confirmed by the Holy Spirit and filled with the
fire of the love of Cod. The nearer you are to the light, the further you are
from the darkness; the nearer you are to heaven, the further you are from the
earth; the nearer you are to Cod, the further you are from the world.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of
‘Abdu’l-Baha quoted by May
Maxwell in ‘An Early Pilgrimage’, 1898)
