It is not merely material well-being that people need. What
they desperately need is to know how to live their lives -- they need to know
who they are, to what purpose they exist, and how they should act towards one
another; and, once they know the answers to these questions they need to be
helped to gradually apply these answers to everyday behavior. It is to the
solution of this basic problem of mankind that the greater part of all our
energy and resources should be directed.
- The Universal House of Justice (From
a letter dated November 19, 1974; compilation: ‘Guidelines for Local Spiritual
Assemblies, [Developing Distinctive Baha’i Communities]’, NSA of USA, 1998
edition)
