Brisbane, Australia

June Perkins ©

“Quaff from the tongue of the merciful the stream of divine mystery, and behold from the dayspring of divine utterance the unveiled splendor of the daystar of wisdom.”

-Bahá’u’lláh, Hidden Words

Wilmette, USA

Sholeh Samadani Munion ©

Dozens of monarch butterflies in the gardens of the Baha’i House of Worship.

“Say, this of a certainty is the Garden of Repose, the loftiest Point of adoration, the Tree beyond which there is no passing, the blessed Lote-Tree, the Most Mighty Sign, the most beauteous Countenance and the most comely Face.”

-The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab

Haifa, Israel

Gerardo Almada ©

Artes, oficios y ciencias, elevan el mundo del ser y conducen a su exaltación. El conocimientoes como alas para la vida del hombre y una escalera para su ascenso. Su adquisición incumbe atodos.

-Casa Universal de Justicia, El Modelo de Vida Baha’ia

Persia, USA

Lindsey Lugsch-Tehle ©

“… he entereth the City of Divine Unity, and the garden of oneness, and the court of detachment. In this plane the seeker casteth away all signs, allusions, veils, and words, and beholdeth all things with an eye illumined by the effulgent lights which God Himself hath shed upon him. In his journey he seeth all differences return to a single word and all allusions culminate in a single point. Unto this beareth witness he who sailed upon the ark of fire and followed the inmost path to the pinnacle of glory in the realm of immortality: “Knowledge is one point, which the foolish have multiplied.””

-Baha’u’llah, Gems of Divine Mysteries

Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Lucia Tyson ©

“Every created thing in the whole universe is but a door leading into His knowledge, a sign of His sovereignty, a revelation of His names, a symbol of His majesty, a token of His power, a means of admittance into His straight Path….”

-Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings

San Francisco, USA

Jonathan Ellis ©

“But if he possesses the knowledge of God, becomes ignited through the fire of the love of God, witnesses the great and mighty signs of the Kingdom, becomes the cause of love among mankind, and lives in the utmost state of sanctity and holiness, he shall surely attain to second birth, be baptized by the Holy Spirit and enjoy everlasting existence.”

-Abdu’l-Bahá, Foundations of World Unity

Haifa, Israel

Adib Amini ©

The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.

-The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab