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"Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the
heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley,
and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention
of God hath been made, and His praise glorified."
Baha'u'llah
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Spirituality and PrayerBaha'u'llah and ‘Abdu'l-Baha have revealed innumerable prayers for use at various times and for various purposes. The greatness of conception and depth of spirituality revealed in these utterances can be fully appreciated and their power for good realized only by making their use a regular and important part of one's daily life. In his talks Abdu'l-Baha describes prayer as “conversation with God”, and concerning meditation he says that while you meditate you are speaking with your own spirit. Baha'i prayer is not, however, confined to the use of prescribed forms, important as those are. Baha'u'llah teaches that one's whole life should be a prayer, that work done in the right spirit is worship, that every thought, word and deed devoted to the Glory of God and the good of one's fellows is prayer, in the truest sense of the word.
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to
worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy
might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee,
the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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