Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.
Interpretation
Prejudice distorts our perception of beauty and goodness in people and things, regardless of their differences.
This quote emphasizes the importance of overcoming prejudices that cloud our judgement about others. It suggests that beauty and goodness exist in all forms and places, and that we should appreciate individuals for their essence rather than allow preconceived notions to dictate our perceptions.
In practice
During a speech on diversity, one might say, 'As Abdu'L-Bah reminds us, 'light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning,' promoting acceptance of all cultures.
Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not contradictory.
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
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