O My friend, listen with heart and soul to the songs of the
spirit, and treasure them as thine own eyes. For the heavenly wisdoms, like the
clouds of spring, will not rain down on the earth of men’s hearts forever; and
though the grace of the All-Bounteous One is never stilled and never ceasing, yet
to each time and era a portion is allotted and a bounty set apart, this in a
given measure. “And no one thing is there, but with Us are its storehouses; and
We send it not down but in settled measure.” [Qur’án 15:21] The cloud of the
Loved One’s mercy raineth only on the garden of the spirit, and bestoweth this
bounty only in the season of spring. The other seasons have no share in this
greatest grace, and barren lands no portion of this favor.
(Baha’u’llah, ‘The
Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys’)
