The Lofty Summit of Unchanging Purpose
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On 19 August 1913, at Ramleh in Egypt, as He prepared to send Lua Getsinger to teach in India, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá told her that she must be firm and unshakable in her purpose. Then He said:
“Strive day and night to attain to this exalted state. Look at me! Thou dost not know a thousandth part of the difficulties and seemingly unsurmountable passes that rise daily before my eyes. I do not heed them; I am walking in my chosen highway; I know the destination. Hundreds of storms and tempests may rage furiously around my head; hundreds of Titanics may sink to the bottom of the sea, the mad waves may rise to the roof of heaven; all these will not change my purpose, will not disturb me in the least; I will not look either to the right or to the left; I am looking ahead, far, far. Piercing through the impenetrable darkness of the night, the howling winds, the raging storms, I see the glorious Light beckoning me forward, forward. The balmy weather is coming, and the voyager shall land safely.”
Source: Star of the West, vol. 4, no. 12 (16 October 1913), p. 208; also quoted in Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 144, and in Velma Piff Metelmann, Lua Getsinger: Herald of the Covenant.
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