Juliet, Your Heart Teaches
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Juliet Thompson, a devout Bahá’í and a New York artist, was told by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that she taught well. Frankly and lovingly, He said to her: “I have met many people who have been affected by you, Juliet. You are not eloquent; you are not fluent, but your heart teaches. You speak with an emotion—a feeling which makes people ask, ‘What is this that she has?’”
Source: Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 60; from The Diary of Juliet Thompson.
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