Today the confirmations of the Kingdom of Abha are with
those who renounce themselves, forget their own opinions, cast aside
personalities and are thinking of the welfare of others. Whosoever has lost
himself has found the universe and the inhabitants thereof. Whosoever is
occupied with himself is wandering in the desert of heedlessness and regret.
The "master-key" to self-mastery is self-forgetting. The road to the
palace of life is through the path of renunciation.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words of
‘Abdu’l-Baha, Star of the West, vol. 17, no. 2; also in compilation:
‘Psychology and Knowledge of Self by Bahá'u'lláh, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi
and Universal House of Justice’, prepared by the Research Department of the
Universal House of Justice)
