2 Jan | a.m

O SON OF SPIRIT!

The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor….

- Bahá’u’lláh, The Arabic Hidden Words, no. 2

Ye observe how the world is divided against itself, how many a land is red with blood and its very dust is caked with human gore....And the breeding-ground of all these tragedies is prejudice: prejudice of race and nation, of religion, of political opinion; and the root cause of prejudice is blind imitation of the past - imitation in religion, in racial attitudes, in national bias, in politics. So long as this aping of the past persisteth, just so long will the foundations of the social order be blown to the four winds, just so long will humanity be continually exposed to direst peril.

- Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 246