O servant of God! We have bestowed a dewdrop from the ocean
of divine grace; would that men might drink therefrom! We have brought a trace
of the sweet melodies of the Beloved; would that men might hearken with their
inner ear! Soar upon the wings of joy in the atmosphere of the love of God.
Regard the people of the world as dead and seek the fellowship of the living.
Whoso hath not breathed the sweet fragrance of the Beloved at this dawntide is
indeed accounted among the dead.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Tabernacle of Unity’)
