Tag: "Search after truth"

tag name	Search after truth	type:	Miscellaneous; Religion, general
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Search_after_truth
variations or mis-spellings	search for truth; seek; quest
related tags	Independent investigation of truth; Journey (spiritual)
referring tags	Haft Vádí (Seven Valleys); Prerequisites of the true seeker; Tablet of the True Seeker
Inventory subject	Condition of search
notes	"Wert thou to speed through the immensity of space and traverse the expanse of heaven, yet thou wouldst find no rest save in submission to Our command and humbleness before Our Face." – Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Arabic no. 40 "... one must search after truth, become enraptured and enthralled with any sanctified soul in whom one finds it, and become wholly attracted to the outpouring grace of God. Like a moth, one must be a lover of the light, in whatever lamp it may shine; and like a nightingale, one must be enamoured of the rose, in whatever bower it may bloom. Were the sun to rise from the west, it would still be the sun. Indeed, from whatever point the sun may rise, it is still the sun. One must not take its appearance to be confined to a single point and regard the other points as deprived. One must not be veiled by its rising in the east and consider the west as the place of its setting and decline. One must seek after the manifold grace of God, search out the divine effulgences, and become enraptured and enthralled with any reality in which they are clearly and plainly found..." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, 14.14-15 "... in order to make any progress in the search after truth we must relinquish superstition. If all seekers would follow this principle they would obtain a clear vision of the truth. If five people meet together to seek for truth, they must begin by cutting themselves free from all their own special conditions and renouncing all preconceived ideas. In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of life. The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity, and unity is necessary if we would reach truth, for truth is one... No one truth can contradict another truth. Light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning! A rose is beautiful in whatsoever garden it may bloom! A star has the same radiance if it shines from the East or from the West. Be free from prejudice, so will you love the Sun of Truth from whatsoever point in the horizon it may arise! You will realize that if the Divine light of truth shone in Jesus Christ it also shone in Moses and in Buddha. The earnest seeker will arrive at this truth. This is what is meant by the “Search after Truth.”" – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Paris Talks, talk 41: The First Principle – Search after Truth
references	bahai9.com/wiki/Search; bahaiquotes.com/subject/seeking; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Search; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Seek; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Quest

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