The Light, Not the Lamp
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The Master’s life was centred on God, not on Himself. To do God’s will, to be His servant, were His concerns.
He disliked photographs of Himself, permitting them only to satisfy His friends. “But to have a picture of oneself,” He said, “is to emphasize the personality, which is merely the lamp, and is quite unimportant. The light burning within the lamp has the only real significance.”
Source: Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Annamarie Honnold), no. 10, “Photographs of self—the light is important, not the lamp”, p. 13.
Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: humility).
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