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Patterns of our lives

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Jun 24 2021
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“My dear mother often told us about the times when she, her younger sister and their mother stayed alone after their father did not return from the war. Young women at the time were supposed to be married early so to ensure their own fortune and the fortune of their family. But Nora, my mother, aspired to go to university and eventually became a doctor. At the same time, my grandma would tell us that Nora remained a strong support at home during her studies too and once she became a doctor she would stay nearby in order to serve their community. This […]

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May 24 2021
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“The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.” – Michelangelo

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Patterns of our lives

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Apr 29 2021
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“Sometimes you feel like your wings are tied before you could learn to fly. You come from a disadvantaged background and your opportunities are few. You might not have the chance to go to school like your brothers do. You are encouraged to do housework but not to read and write. You learn that you should marry to secure your future but your heart awakens and you want to fly. You are sensitive and that is the strength of your character. You look to the future and are not bound by opportunistic tendencies. You stand your ground, even if noone else […]

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Patterns of Our Lives

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Apr 20 2021
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“O ye beloved, and ye handmaids of the Merciful! This is the day when the Day-Star of Truth rose over the horizon of life, and its glory spread, and its brightness shone out with such power that it clove the dense and high-piled clouds and mounted the skies of the world in all its splendour. Hence do ye witness a new stirring throughout all created things.” – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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Patterns of Our Lives

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Apr 14 2021
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“On my first day at my new workplace, the town’s only old people’s home. The head nurse introduced me to her team of staff and explained to me the daily routine.   The home had about 100 inhabitants. Some of them I had known from my childhood, grandparents of my childhood friends. Others were friends or neighbours of my own grannies, who lost their spouses and were left alone in their older years.  One day, I invited my grandmother for a visit. She was very hesitant and worried about her own feelings first. But coming to meet her friends turned out to be […]

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Patterns of Our Lives

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Apr 06 2021
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“I lived in Paris at the time and on Wednesdays we would have weekly meetings for a circle of women. We would excitedly talk about the suffragette movement and how to improve the status of women.  One day, an American lady, the wife of a wealthy industrialist, stopped in town, on her way to the Holy Land. She told us she was about to travel to Akka in Palestine to learn more about unity and the equality of men and women. She wanted to meet the Head of the Baha’i faith there. It was 1904 and I had never heard about this […]

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Patterns of Our Lives

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Apr 01 2021
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“She was determined to go to university. None of her girlfriends did but her parents were encouraging her aspirations and she became one of the best students of her class.  We met the same afternoon she had passed her final exam at the university and officially become a biology teacher. We bumped into each other at a nearby coffee. She was radiant and very excited about the future.  In fact, I took this photo of her and it is one of favourite ever since.” 

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Patterns of our lives

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Mar 23 2021
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She was a queen. Maybe not in the literal sense of the word but she was an example of uprightness, of honesty and dignity. She worked at a library and led many groups of children to discover the love of literature and the beauty of the arts. I can thank her for that as well.  And she would hold talks on love. I remember visiting the library with our class and listening to her read to us from a beautiful book of quotations she had compiled on Love:   “Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul.”  […]

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Patterns of our lives

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Mar 01 2021
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“It was a summer afternoon when the photographer came to my grandparents’ home. Grandpa being a writer and grandma a famous conductor, a local magazine was running an article about them and there was a photoshoot in their home. I was 16 at the time and loved spending summer vacations at their house and enjoying their library.  Grandma asked the photographer to take some pictures of me as well.  And if you ask now whether my grandparents were a source of inspiration in my life, my answer is absolutely yes. We spent many evenings debating on questions a teenager would want […]

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