March 2

Pray that your hearts may be cut from yourselves and from the world, that you may be confirmed by the Holy Spirit and filled with the fire of the love of Cod. The nearer you are to the light, the further you are from the darkness; the nearer you are to heaven, the further you are from the earth; the nearer you are to Cod, the further you are from the world. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, quoted by May Maxwell in ‘An Early Pilgrimage’, 1898)