The Bahá'ís must learn to forget personalities and to
overcome the desire — so natural in people — to take sides and fight about it.
They must also learn to really make use of the great principle of consultation.
(From a letter dated 30 June 1949
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany
and Austria, published in ‘The Light of Divine Guidance’; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I, Consultation)
