February 2012
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“The darkness of this gloomy night shall pass away. Again the Sun of Reality will...”
– Abdu’l-Bahá (via hybrid-ity)
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“Correction of the present wrong requires no army, for the field of action is the...”
– Gayle Morrison - To Move the World: Louis G. Gregory and the Advancement of Racial Unity in America
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“Man is not to be pronounced man simply because of bodily attributes. The...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá - The Promulgation of Universal Peace
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“If the walls of caste are ever to be shattered laughter…will be no small...”
– Louis G. Gregory - Racial Unity
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“Walls of illusion continued to shield his descendents and their peers from...”
– Gayle Morrison - To Move the World: Louis G. Gregory and the Advancement of Racial Unity in America
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“If thou art a believer, thy faith shall be sufficient for thee above all things...”
– The Báb
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“According to the direct and sacred command of God we are forbidden to utter...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him...”
– Bahá’u’lláh
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“O handmaid of God, peace must first be established among individuals, until it...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“O Son of Man!
Wert thou to speed through the immensity of space and traverse...”
– Bahá’u’lláh
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“Not everything that a man knoweth can be disclosed, nor can everything that he...”
– Bahá’u’lláh
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“The sciences of this world are droplets of reality; if then they lead not to...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“Man reacheth perfection through good deeds, voluntarily performed, not through...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“God has not created men that they should destroy one another. All races, tribes,...”
– Abdu’l-Bahá
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“It will not be possible in the future for men to amass great fortunes by the...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein
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“This handful of days on earth will slip away like shadows and be over. Strive...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“O rulers of the earth! Be reconciled among yourselves, that ye may need no more...”
– Bahá’u’lláh
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“Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be a treasure to the poor,...”
– Bahá’u’lláh
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“Were it not for tests, the courageous could not be separated from the cowardly....”
– ‘Abdu’l-Baha
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“True civilization will unfurl its banner in the mid-most heart of the world...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“O God!
Make this youth illumined and this weak one strong! Bestow upon him...”
– Abdu’l-Baha
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“Thoughts are a boundless sea, and the effects and varying conditions of...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
January 2012
7 posts
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This year I want to read The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative by Nabíl, Vignettes from the Life of `Abdu’l-Bahá by Annamarie Honnold, and The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by `Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912. I’m sure there are many more.
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“You listen, but you do not hear.”
– Conn Iggulden - Lords of the Bow
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“All men die…Our lives are no more than a bird flying through a lighted...”
– Conn Iggulden - Lords of the Bow
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“If my beliefs could be burned…I would not trust them, nor live by them. ...”
– Conn Iggulden - Lords of the Bow
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“In this journey the seeker becometh witness to a myriad changes and...”
– Bahá’u’lláh - Gems of Divine Mystery
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2011 in Books
January
1. December 24 – January 1: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Steig Larsson
2. January 1 – 24: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3. January 13 – 16: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
4. January 16 – 17: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
5. January 17 - 25: The Horse and his Boy by C.S. Lewis
6. January 18 – 27: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled...
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Books Read in December 2011
1. November 22 - December 7: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
2. December 15 - 22: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. December 7 - 23: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
4. December 23 - 27: Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden
December 2011
86 posts
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“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well,...”
– Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily...”
– Ian McEwan - Atonement
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified”
– Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde - The Critic as Artist
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical...”
– -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(via lotsofbookquotes)
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“Surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one...”
– Plato, Socrates in Apology (via distantheartbeats)
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“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every...”
– Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire (via booklit)
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Book #61: Wolf of the Plains
“We are one people…”
I went home for the holidays, and assuming I would be receiving books for Christmas didn’t pack more than the two I was reading. Well, I finished both of those on my first day home and there were still three days until Christmas. I was scrounging around looking for a new book that would be quick to read because I didn’t want to have to...
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