The highest of created beings fighting to obtain the
lowest form of matter, earth! Land belongs not to one
people, but to all people. This earth is not man’s home,
but his tomb. It is for their tombs these men are
fighting. There is nothing so horrible in this world as
the tomb, the abode of the decaying bodies of men.
.... I charge you all that each one of you concentrate all
the thoughts of your heart on love and unity. When a
thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought
of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a
more powerful thought of love. Thoughts of war
bring destruction to all harmony, well-being, restfulness
and content.
Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood,
peace, friendship, and happiness.
When soldiers of the world draw their swords to kill,
soldiers of God clasp each other’s hands! So may all
the savagery of man disappear by the Mercy of God,
working through the pure in heart and the sincere of
soul. Do not think the peace of the world an ideal
impossible to attain!
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with
every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and
positive, will spread; it will become the desire of
others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches
the minds of all men.
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love
will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible
events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces
steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love
to all; ‘Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit in the
heart of Man’. Take courage! God never forsakes His
children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts
be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and
harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will
success crown your efforts, and with the universal
brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace
and goodwill.
`Abdu'l-Bahá
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