Seeing the end in the beginning
The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
(Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p. 156)
When the Master set the stone in its place He said, ‘The Temple is already built.’
(Marzieh Gail, Dawn Over Mount Hira, p. 188)
If I should be influenced by the chaotic condition which exists in the world,’ he said one evening at the dinner-table, ‘I would remain passive and accomplish nothing.’
(Shoghi Effendi as quoted in Ugo Giachery’s “Shoghi Effendi – Recollections”, p. 29.)