The Heart That Speaks
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This is part of the account Howard Colby Ives wrote of that first memorable meeting with the Master:
I could not speak. We both sat perfectly silent for what seemed a long while, and gradually a great peace came to me. Then ‘Abdu’l-Bahá placed His hand upon my breast saying that it was the heart that speaks. Again silence: a long, heart-enthralling silence. No word further was spoken, and all the time I was with Him not one single sound came from me. But no word was necessary from me to Him. I knew that, even then, and how I thanked God it was so.
Source: Howard Colby Ives, Portals to Freedom, ch. 1; quoted in Adib Taherzadeh, The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 109.
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