O Maryam! Though a tree be laden with a myriad leaves and
fruits, a gust of autumnal wind sufficeth to obliterate them all. Remove not,
then, thy gaze from the very root of the Tree of Divinity and the branch of the
Lote-Tree of celestial glory. Consider the ocean, how serene it lieth, how
majestically it reposeth within its bed. Yet the winds of the will of the
eternal Beloved cause countless ripples and innumerable swells to appear upon
its surface, each wave distinct and divergent from the others. All the peoples
of the world today are preoccupied with the ebb and flow of these waves, and
are oblivious of the stupendous might of that Sea of seas whose every movement
layeth bare the signs of Him Who is the Unconstrained.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
