Peace

“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.”

— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

 

O Son of being! Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants.  -Hidden Word.  When all mankind shall receive the same opportunity of education and the equality of men and women be realized, the foundations of war will be utterly destroyed. Without equality this will be impossible because all differences and distinction are conducive to discord and strife. Equality between men and women is conducive to the abolition of warfare for the reason that women will never be willing to sanction it.-The Promulgation of Universal Peace   But war is made for the satisfaction of men's ambition; for the sake of worldly gain to the few, terrible misery is brought to numberless homes, breaking the hearts of hundreds of men and women! How many widows mourn their husbands, how many stories of savage cruelty do we hear! How many little orphaned children are crying for their dead fathers, how many women are weeping for their slain sons! There is nothing so heart-breaking and terrible as an outburst of human savagery!-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 29   Religion must be the cause of affection. It must be a joy-bringer. If it become the cause of difference, it were better to banish it. Should it become the source of hatred, or warfare, it were better that it should not exist. -Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 82.
  “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”-Rumi   “O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other.”– Baha’u’llah   “So powerful is the light of unity, that it can illuminate the whole earth.”-Baha’u’llah  “Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.”-Rumi    “The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.”-Abdu’l-Baha   “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”-Buddha   “There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.”-Gandhi   “The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”-Gandhi
  ‘’If we are lovers of the light we adore it in whatever lamp it may become manifest, but if we love the lamp itself and the light is transferred to another lamp we will neither accept nor sanction it.  Therefore we must follow and adore the virtues revealed in the messengers of God whether in Abraham, Moses, Jesus or other prophets but we must not adhere to and adore the lamp.”-Abdu’l-Baha    “The peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, derive their inspiration from one heavenly source and are the subjects of one God.”-Baha’u’llah    “Religion must be conducive to love and unity among mankind; for if it be the cause of enmity and strife, the absence of religion is preferable.”-Abdu’l-Baha   “The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”-Baha’u’llah  “Speak not of peoples and laws and kingdoms, for the whole earth is My birthplace and all humans are my brothers.”-Gibran    “Religions are different roads converging upon the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal?”-Gandhi    “The believers, in their mutual love, mercy and compassion, are like one body: if one organ complained, the rest of the body develops a fever.”- Muhammad   “Be the change you want to see in the world.”-Gandhi   “Let them look not upon a man’s colour but upon his heart.”-Abdu’l-Baha 
“So it will come to pass that when women participate fully and equally in the affairs of the world, when they enter confidently and capably the great arena of laws and politics, war will cease; for woman will be the obstacle and hindrance to it.”-Abdu’l-Baha    “Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.”-Gandhi   “O Thou kind Lord! Unite all. Let the religions agree and make the nations one, so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home. May they all love together in perfect harmony.”-Baha’u’llah    “Close your eyes to racial differences, and welcome all with the light of oneness.”-Baha’u’llah    “Outward peace is useless without inner peace.”-Gandhi “O Thou kind Lord!  Thou hast created all humanity from the same stock.  Thou hast decreed that all shall belong to the same household.  In Thy Holy Presence they are all Thy servants, and all mankind are sheltered beneath Thy Tabernacle; all have gathered together at Thy Table of Bounty; all are illumined through the light of Thy Providence.”-Baha’u’llah   “May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind."-Abdu'l-Baha   “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.”-Gandhi   “O Thou kind Lord! Unite all.  Let the religions agree and make the nations one, so that they may see each other as one family and the whole earth as one home.  May they all live together in perfect harmony.”-Abdu’l-Baha    “Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self.”-Baha’ullah    “Blessed is he who preferreth his brother to himself.”-Baha’u’llah    “Shed the light of boundless love on every human being whom you meet.”–Abdu’l-Baha