We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed
with great, with incalculable afflictions. We see it languishing on its bed of
sickness, sore-tried and disillusioned. They that are intoxicated by
self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and
infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves
included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of
the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy. They have conceived the
straight to be crooked, and have imagined their friend an enemy.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
