Living in the Present -- The Bahá'í Perspective?
  I used to suck at mindfulness. Sometimes I still do. But this has been a good year (I know, I sound like a vintage wine). The notion of mindfulness, with its deep roots in the Buddhist tradition, is indeed a profound and powerful idea. 'Abdu'l-Bahá reminds the Bahá'ís too that "prayer

posted 12:43:36pm May. 26, 2013 | read full post »

Why Suffer? - Part II
Verily God hath made adversity a morning dew upon His green pasture. - Bahá'u'lláh Now, there's a revolutionary idea. That the human spirit is a pasture. A pasture of our Maker none other. And that suffering is the dew that keeps it green, alive and growing. This is not the o

posted 9:30:54pm Feb. 21, 2013 | read full post »

O God, What Art Thou?
  "Thou art what Thou art."  - Bahá'u'lláh   Let's put it in the record right off the bat. I haven't got the faintest idea about God! I admit knowing nothing of the Unknowable. Yet somehow my heart rests in deep satisfaction born of my utter cluelessness. The cluelessness

posted 2:13:26pm Dec. 12, 2012 | read full post »

Silk and Satin - The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh
"...were all the sorrows of the world to be crowded into my heart they would, I feel, all vanish, when in the presence of Bahá'u'lláh. It is as if I had entered Paradise." - Prince Zaynu'l-'Abidín Khan The calmness and serenity of the infant was such as to amaze the mother. Khadijih Khanum co

posted 6:52:12pm Nov. 05, 2012 | read full post »

The Báb
"His life is one of the most magnificent examples of courage which it has been the privilege of mankind to behold..." - A.L.M. Nicolas What would call for a musketry of 750 riflemen to riddle a mild-mannered young man of thirty-one, a kindly demeanour and a peaceful purpose to a pulp of flesh a

posted 12:52:31pm Oct. 19, 2012 | read full post »