O ye beloved of God! As long as ye can strive to set aglow
the hearts with love, be attracted to one another and be members of each other.
Every soul of the beloved ones must adore the other and withhold not his
possession and life from them, and by all means he must endeavor to make that
other joyous and happy. But that other (the recipient of such love) must also
be disinterested and life-sacrificing. Thus may this Sunrise flood the
horizons, this melody gladden and make happy all the people, this divine remedy
become the panacea for every disease, this Spirit of Reality become the cause
of life for every soul.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)
