Tag: "Self-knowledge"

tag name:	Self-knowledge	type:	Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Religion, general
web link:	bahai-library.com/tags/Self-knowledge
related tags:	– Concepts; – Concepts, Philosophical; – Concepts, Religious; Heart; Knowledge; Meditation; Prayer; Self
referring tags:	He who knoweth his self knoweth his Lord (hadith)
Inventory subject:	Knowledge of self
notes:	"Lauded and glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God!... Far, far from Thy glory be what mortal man can affirm of Thee, or attribute unto Thee, or the praise with which he can glorify Thee! Whatever duty Thou hast prescribed unto Thy servants of extolling to the utmost Thy majesty and glory is but a token of Thy grace unto them, that they may be enabled to ascend unto the station conferred upon their own inmost being, the station of the knowledge of their own selves..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, I (BH00652) "... Could ye apprehend with what wonders of My munificence and bounty I have willed to entrust your souls, ye would, of a truth, rid yourselves of attachment to all created things, and would gain a true knowledge of your own selves—a knowledge which is the same as the comprehension of Mine own Being... Suffer not your idle fancies, your evil passions, your insincerity and blindness of heart to dim the luster, or stain the sanctity, of so lofty a station. Ye are even as the bird which soareth, with the full force of its mighty wings and with complete and joyous confidence, through the immensity of the heavens, until, impelled to satisfy its hunger, it turneth longingly to the water and clay of the earth below it, and, having been entrapped in the mesh of its desire, findeth itself impotent to resume its flight to the realms whence it came. Powerless to shake off the burden weighing on its sullied wings, that bird, hitherto an inmate of the heavens, is now forced to seek a dwelling-place upon the dust. Wherefore, O My servants, defile not your wings with the clay of waywardness and vain desires, and suffer them not to be stained with the dust of envy and hate, that ye may not be hindered from soaring in the heavens of My divine knowledge..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII (Tablet of Ahmad, Persian; BH00249) "... The first Ṭaráz and the first effulgence which hath dawned from the horizon of the Mother Book is that man should know his own self and recognize that which leadeth unto loftiness or lowliness, glory or abasement, wealth or poverty... The straight path is the one which guideth man to the dayspring of perception and to the dawning-place of true understanding and leadeth him to that which will redound to glory, honour and greatness..." – Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Ṭarázát (Ornaments), ¶8
references:	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-knowledge; bahaiquotes.com/subject/self-knowledge-of; bahaiquotes.com/subject/knowledge-of-self

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