Behold, all the
people are imprisoned within the tomb of self, and lie buried beneath the
nethermost depths of worldly desire! Wert thou to attain to but a dewdrop of
the crystal waters of divine knowledge, thou wouldst readily realize that true
life is not the life of the flesh but the life of the spirit. For the life of
the flesh is common to both men and animals, whereas the life of the spirit is
possessed only by the pure in heart who have quaffed from the ocean of faith
and partaken of the fruit of certitude. This life knoweth no death, and this
existence is crowned by immortality. Even as it hath been said: “He who is a
true believer liveth both in this world and in the world to come.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
