Did you know that everyone is where we are, were and will be?  We 
often think our
experiences are ours alone and no one person can ever truly understand 
what we've been
through and what we're going through.

So for several of you the question of who you are is a result of how you 
came to be and why you are!

We share in the responsibilities for both our difficulties and delights.
He provides us the arena and we pick the games.
He gives us a face and we form our expressions.
He opens doors and we must walk Through them.
He answers our prayers according to what we need for our highest good 
and learning and not to what we want.  
Our destiny is in Gods hands.

We are not perfect and we must realize that we are not alone.  
We are all going through the same things but at different times.
Remember everyone has been where we are and where we will be.

Spirituality is an elusive quality. At times we soar to the sun and at others 
we prefer the darkness of the cave. 
This world needs competence. Spirituality seems to follow when we 
worship with our hands and head. 
Do the things you should; don't do the things you shouldn't and do them 
with love.


Defining Your Role in the Community extracted the following quotes 
for your convenience:

True reliance is for the servant to pursue his profession and calling in this 
world, to hold fast unto the Lord, to seek naught but His grace, inasmuch 
as in His Hands is the destiny of all His servants.
						Bahá'ú'lláh, Writings of 
Bahá'ú'lláh, pp. 289-290 

"The first Taraz and the first effulgence which hath dawned from the 
horizon of the Mother Book is that man should know his own self and 
recognize that which leadeth unto loftiness or lowliness, glory…"
						Bahá'ú'lláh, Tablets of 
Bahá'ú'lláh, pp. 34-35

"It is no use for some able and eloquent teacher to take all the 
responsibility for the spread of the Cause.  For such a thing is not only 
contrary to the spirit of the Teachings, but to the explicit text of the…"
						Shoghi Effendi, The 
Baha'i World, p. 126 Vol. V.  

"What is the Purpose of Life?" 		Quotations From The Writings 
of the Baha'i Faith, www.bahai.org 

"The more difficulties one sees in the world  - the more perfect one 
becomes.  The more you plough and dig the ground  - the more fertile it 
becomes. The more you cut the branches of a tree - …"
			'Abdu'l-Bahá, Star of 
the West, vol. XIV, no. 2, p. 41

"Do you think it is the teachers who make converts and change human 
hearts?" No, surely not.  They are only pure souls who take the first step, 
and then let the spirit of Bahá'ú'lláh move and make use of them…"
						Shoghi Effendi, 
Compilation on Teaching by UHJ, p. 9

"From amongst all mankind hath He chosen you, and your eyes have 
been opened to the light of guidance and your ears attuned to the music 
of the company above; and blessed by abounding grace…"
The Selections from the 
Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá 


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