9 Virtues (this is a slides created for Inspiring Voices Toastmaster Club)
Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of
mankind. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all of the worlds are
impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the
other divine qualities will also become realized. Let the light of truth and
honesty shine from your faces so that all may know that your word, in business
or pleasure, is a word to trust and be sure of. Forget self and work for the
whole. (Message to the London Baha'is, October 1911). ...
Abdul-Baha's stories
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"O people of God! I admonish you to observe courtesy, for above all else
it is the prince of virtues. Well is it with him who is illumined with the
light of courtesy and is attired with
the vesture of uprightness. Whoso is endued with courtesy hath indeed attained a sublime station. It is hoped
that this Wronged One and everyone else may be enabled to acquire it, hold fast
unto it, observe it, and fix our gaze upon it. This is a binding command which
hath streamed forth from the Pen of the Most Great Name." (Tablets of
Baha'u'llah, p. 88)
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The Great Being saith: The heaven of divine wisdom is illumined with the two
luminaries of consultation and compassion. Take ye counsel together in all
matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I,
Consultation)
Consultation bestoweth
greater awareness and transmuteth conjecture into certitude. It is a
shining light which, in a dark world, leadeth the way and guideth.
For everything there is and will continue to be a station of perfection and
maturity. The maturity of the gift of understanding is made manifest through
consultation.
(Bahá'u'lláh,
in Consultation: A Compilation, p. 3)
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Justice and equity
are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and
perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the
protection of the nations.
(Baha'u'llah: Epistle to the Son of the Wolf Pages 12-13)
(Baha'u'llah: Epistle to the Son of the Wolf Pages 12-13)
"The world of humanity has two
wings; one is woman and the other man. Not until both wings are equally
developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible.
Not until the world of woman becomes equal to the world of man in the
acquisition of virtues and perfection's, can success and prosperity be attained
as they ought to be."
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'Abdu'l-Baha
"A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of
men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light
of wisdom and understanding."
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"Detachment is as the sun; in whatsoever heart it
doth shine it quencheth the fire of
covetousness and self. He whose sight is
illumined with the light of understanding will assuredly detach himself from
the world and the vanities thereof ....Let not the world and its vileness
grieve you. Happy is he whom riches fill
not with vain-glory, nor poverty with sorrow.“
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“O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but
the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not
thy hold.”
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Now, imagine a
friendship with kindness but not justice – a lodestone with no guardian;
courtesy without truthfulness: prince with no solid foundation; a friend is
kind but does not consult: love in the darkness; a friend who consult but not
kindness: bright but without attraction
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