" ... grant that I may die to all that I possess and live to whatsoever belongeth unto Thee."

"I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy Beauty that shineth forth above the horizon of eternity, a Beauty before which as soon as it revealeth itself the kingdom of beauty boweth down in worship, magnifying it in ringing tones, to grant that I may die to all that I possess and live to whatsoever belongeth unto Thee. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name, the Most Holy, the Most Luminous, the Most Mighty, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the robe to which have clung all in this world and in the world to come."

-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, CLXXVII, p.290

Illuminated Seal of Bahá'u'lláh