Another commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another
even as I love you. Great mercy and blessings are promised to the people of
your land, but on one condition; that their hearts be filled with the fire of
love, that they live in perfect harmony and kindness like one soul in different
bodies, like one soul in different bodies. Never forget this; look at one
another with the eye of perfection; look at me, follow me, be as I am; take no
thought for yourselves or your lives, whether ye eat or whether ye sleep,
whether ye are comfortable, whether ye are well or ill, whether ye are with
friends or foes, whether ye receive praise or blame; for all these things ye
must care not at all. Look at me and be as I am; ye must die to yourselves and
to the world, so ye shall be born again and enter the kingdom of heaven. Behold
the candle, how it gives light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to
give forth its flame of light.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Farewell words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
to the First Party of American Pilgrims, Acca, 1898; Star of the West, vol. 12,
no. 16, December 31, 1921; Baha'i Scriptures; also in ‘An Early Pilgrimage’, by
May Maxwell)
