He urges you to devote yourself to encouraging the friends
to arise and teach. He feels that, although prayer and meditation are
necessary, with sensitive, imaginative people like you who dream vividly, there
is always a danger that one may begin to interpret one's dreams and feelings as
coming in the form of true inspiration from God, and be carried away, without
realizing it, by one's personal ideas.
Those who are inclined by nature to be prayerful and
intuitive need to become more practical; and the extremely practical friends,
who are disinclined to devote sufficient time to prayer and meditation, should
cultivate this other side of their natures. In this way more balance of
temperaments can be produced for the service of the Cause.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
21 December 1955 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer;
‘Afire with the Vision, Messages from Shoghi Effendi to Latin America’)
