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Waiting at a Hungarian hospital

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Aug 17 2018
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“Doctor, may I go home now? I cannot wait any longer,” calls an old lady on a doctor passing by on the corridor. “I left the three children at home and I didn’t think I’d have to wait so long at the emergency. He stops for a second: “What is it?” She repeats her question begging for empathy. “May I go home? What would happen then?” “Then you would go home,” he says simply, obviously disturbed but in a rush. “I don’t know your whole story,” he cuts it short and rushes onwards. A couple is waiting next to me. […]

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Heartful compassion

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Aug 15 2018
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“Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of usefulness. But when sadness visits us we become weak, our strength leaves us, our comprehension is dim and our intelligence veiled. The actualities of life seem to elude our grasp, the eyes of our spirits fail to discover the sacred mysteries, and we become even as dead beings. There is no human being untouched by these two influences; but all the sorrow and the […]

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From Arnie

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Aug 14 2018
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“It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.” “What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I […]

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From Arnie

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Aug 14 2018

“It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.” “What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I […]

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Heartful compassion

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Aug 13 2018
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“Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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Two helpmates

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Aug 10 2018
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“They are two helpmates, two intimate friends, …concerned about the welfare of each other. …united both physically and spiritually, that they may ever improve the spiritual life of each other, and may enjoy everlasting unity throughout all the worlds of God.” – ’Abdu’l-Bahá

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Heartful compassion

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Aug 10 2018
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“Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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Heartful compassion

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Aug 09 2018
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“Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God’s revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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