Today humanity is increasingly concerned and rightly so with ‘the quality of life’
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When in Bahá'í history
Today humanity is increasingly concerned and rightly so with ‘the quality of life’. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was absorbed with both its spiritual and its physical dimensions: He knew that as the quality of man’s spiritual life improves, his physical life would improve also the other world reflects the inner man. He was fully aware that we are indeed on a ‘spiritual journey from self to God’. He wanted all people to be aware of this vital fact also then they could truly arise to their real potential, both in this world and in the next.
Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 134
Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: abdul-baha).
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