Category: Distilled Insights

Baha’u’llah says that God created human beings because God loves them. Having done that, God asks to be loved in return. God sends Baha’u’llah to deliver this message. In doing this, Baha’u’llah has two purposes. First, to teach each person how to make good on God’s offer and thereby achieve salvation, which is an eternal…

Human beings can be likened to spiritual websites; that is, collections of spiritual information that is put on display for those who come looking for it. A nice idea is to think of a person as a spiritual website. In this scenario, all of creation is the spiritual internet, which is powered by the Divine…

Spiritual growth on earth is all about learning to turn one’s attention away from the affairs of the world and onto the divine realities of the Kingdom. The human soul works like a mirror, which always reflects what it is facing. If the soul is turned toward the earth, it will reflect earthly realities, and…

In the same talk as the one I discussed in the previous post, Abdu’l-Baha gives a list of benefits that come out of meditation. The benefits are so powerful and comprehensive that they could sustain and render successful any undertaking that a person commits to. All that a person needs to do is draw on…

A letter written on behalf of the Guardian says: “There are no set forms of meditation prescribed in the teachings, no plan, as such, for inner development.” (Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Live, in Compilation of Compilations, vol 2, no 1771, p240) However, I think we have an indication of what Abdu’l-Baha thought meditation was….

Some people who are against vaccinations see healing as a spiritual thing, and think that vaccinations, being unnatural, are not spiritual. I also believe that healing is spiritual, but I also believe that vaccinations are spiritual. But how does spiritual healing work? How does the Divine Spirit impact on a physical body? Answer, it uses…