Although in the past all the great Spiritual Teachers have
arisen in the East, there are still many men there who are quite devoid of
spirituality. With regard to the things of the spirit they are as lifeless as a
stone; nor do they wish to be otherwise, for they consider that man is only a
higher form of animal and that the things of God concern him not.
But man’s ambition should soar above this—he should ever
look higher than himself, ever upward and onward, until through the Mercy of
God he may come to the Kingdom of Heaven.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, Paris,
November 5, 1911, ‘Paris Talks’)
