…Jesus, Son of Mary,
whilst seated one day and speaking in the strain of the Holy Spirit, uttered
words such as these: “O people! My food is the grass of the field, wherewith I
satisfy my hunger. My bed is the dust, my lamp in the night the light of the
moon, and my steed my own feet. Behold, who on earth is richer than I?” By the
righteousness of God! Thousands of treasures circle round this poverty, and a
myriad kingdoms of glory yearn for such abasement! Shouldst thou attain to a
drop of the ocean of the inner meaning of these words, thou wouldst surely
forsake the world and all that is therein, and, as the Phoenix wouldst consume
thyself in the flames of the undying Fire.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
