Passivity is bred by the forces of society today. A desire
to be entertained is nurtured from childhood, with increasing efficiency,
cultivating generations willing to be led by whoever proves skilful at
appealing to superficial emotions. Even in many educational systems students
are treated as though they were receptacles designed to receive information.
That the Bahá’í world has succeeded in developing a culture which promotes a
way of thinking, studying, and acting, in which all consider themselves as
treading a common path of service—supporting one another and advancing
together, respectful of the knowledge that each one possesses at any given
moment and avoiding the tendency to divide the believers into categories such
as deepened and uninformed—is an accomplishment of enormous proportions. And
therein lie the dynamics of an irrepressible movement.
- The Universal House of
Justice (Ridvan 2010)
