What is meant by “eternal life” is receiving the grace of
the Holy Spirit, even as a flower partakes of the gifts and breezes of spring.
Observe that in the beginning this flower had a purely mineral life, yet
through the advent of springtime, the outpouring of its vernal showers, and the
heat of its shining sun, it found another life and appeared with the utmost
vitality, delicacy, and fragrance. Compared to its latter life, the former life
of the flower was even as death.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Table talks in Akka,
authenticated by ‘Abdu’l-Baha; ‘Some Answered Questions’ – 2014 revised
translation by the Baha’i World Centre)
