"The Beautiful Struggle: Understanding Racism and Transforming Words into Deeds" Ruha Benjamin

ABS 2017 Ruha Benjamin - The Beautiful Struggle Understanding Racism and Transforming Words into Deeds from Association for Baha'i Studies on Vimeo.

"By God! In earthly riches fear is hidden and peril is concealed."

Bahji at Dusk @ 2017 Chuck Egerton

"ALTHOUGH the Realm of Glory hath none of the vanities of the world, yet within the treasury of trust and resignation We have bequeathed to Our heirs an excellent and priceless Heritage. Earthly treasures We have not bequeathed, nor have We added such cares as they entail. By God! In earthly riches fear is hidden and peril is concealed. Consider ye and call to mind that which the All-Merciful hath revealed in the Qur’án: “Woe betide every slanderer and defamer, him that layeth up riches and counteth them.”1 Fleeting are the riches of the world; all that perisheth and changeth is not, and hath never been, worthy of attention, except to a recognized measure."

1. Qur'án 104:1-21.

• Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh

Bahá’u’lláh

Blessed

Blessed by Chuck and Dawn Egerton -- password: blessed

Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified. —Bahá’u’lláh Blessed Is The Spot - a prayer by Bahá'u'lláh.  Music by Friends in Vancouver.   Photographs © 2017 Chuck and Dawn Egerton.  Beginning calligraphy by Mishkin-Qalam,  closing calligraphy by Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani. © 2017 Chuck and Dawn Egerton

"Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. "

Butterfly in Dawn's Garden © 2017 Chuck Egerton

"Say: Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment. Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation of Providence ordained by the Ordainer, the All-Wise. Were anyone to affirm that it is the Will of God as manifested in the world of being, no one should question this assertion. It is endowed with a power whose reality men of learning fail to grasp. Indeed a man of insight can perceive naught therein save the effulgent splendor of Our Name, the Creator. Say: This is an existence which knoweth no decay, and Nature itself is lost in bewilderment before its revelations, its compelling evidences and its effulgent glory which have encompassed the universe."
Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh After the Kitab-i-Aqdas

"Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning ..."

O SON OF BEING! Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds."

Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words, Arabic No. 31

O SON OF THE WONDROUS VISION!

© 2016 Chuck Egerton

"O SON OF THE WONDROUS VISION! 

I have breathed within thee a breath of My own Spirit, that thou mayest be My lover. Why hast thou forsaken Me and sought a beloved other than Me?"

Bahá'u'lláh, Hidden Words No. 13 ArabicI have breathed within thee a breath of My own Spirit, that thou mayest be My lover. Why hast thou forsaken Me and sought a beloved other than Me?1

"In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love ..."

© 2017 Chuck Egerton

O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, 
and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold. 
Treasure the companionship of the righteous and eschew all fellowship with the ungodly.

—	Bahá'u'lláh, The Persian Hidden Words , No. 3