Overcoming Backbiting – Changing our Behaviour
How do we overcome this cultural past-time? Just stop! As with many things, deeds not words are what is required: However, deprivation of voting rights is usually of little help in such circumstances...
View ArticleStudy Guide to the Ridvan Message 2017
By a Reader of this Blog Please note: This Study has the paragraphs numbered, 1-4 and the sentences are numbered, highlights, bolding and dot formatting, have been added for the purpose of study and...
View ArticleOur Beloved Bahá’u’lláh
Our Beloved Bahá’u’lláh Remembrances of the Leaves of the Holy Family Part I – The Early Years (1817–1853) Monologues for Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of His Birthday on 22 October 2017 Marlene...
View ArticleDisaster Planning for Baha’i Communities
In many places in the world, our communities have faced sudden calamities, for which they weren’t prepared. The NSA in the USA has given us some good guidelines on how to prepare and how to respond,...
View ArticleCalamities – Causing the Limbs of Mankind to Shake
There are 2 quotes, which, when taken together, tend to frighten many of us: The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such...
View ArticleHow to Start Selflessly Serving Others
By Badi Shams In our community we had a soul-searching discussion about the role that service to humanity can play in teaching the Faith. That heart-felt consultation and realization that some friends...
View ArticleTell the Rich of the Midnight Sighing of the Poor
One of my readers posted the following story as a comment on my blog posting about Disaster Planning but it was so poignant I wanted it to stand on its own. This is printed with her permission,...
View ArticleUnderstanding Being vs Doing
A few years ago we started to see the House of Justice refer to “being and doing”, both words I thought I understood. Indeed the dictionary defines them as: Being: to exist or live Doing: to perform...
View ArticleRuhi Book 10: Talks to Prepare for a Conversation with Youth
In Ruhi Book 10.1, (Accompanying One Another on the Path of Service) pages 86-87, we are asked to put some passages together on the themes Enidia identified. These included: Period of Youth Twofold...
View ArticleIntegrating Spiritual Principles into Our Work Life
Recently I was listening to a talk called “A Baha’i Perspective on the Meaning of Work” by Dr. Tiffani Razavi and as someone in recovery from workaholism and work anorexia (also called underearning or...
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