“I desire for you that ideal power, so that you may come into the stream of uninterrupted motion and never cease progressing.”

 

Van Gogh (detail)

“... the divine reality is unlimited and immeasurable and can never stop or deteriorate, therefore the holy souls who are confirmed with this divine power are likewise endowed with eternal motion. Their progress becomes unlimited. Day unto day their lives are strengthened, the circle of their comprehension becomes wider, the sphere of their intellects becomes more effectual and their capacities are increased.

“I desire for you that ideal power, so that you may come into the stream of uninterrupted motion and never cease progressing.”


'Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy (Boston: The Tudor Press, 1918), pp. 125-26.