14 Dec | a.m

… Man should know his own self, and know those things which lead to loftiness or to baseness, to shame or to honor, to affluence or to poverty.

- Baha'u'llah, Compilations, Baha'i World Faith, p. 167

The object of God's teaching to man is that man may know himself in order to comprehend the greatness of God.

- Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdu'l-Bahá in London, p. 79