When any souls grow to be true believers, they will attain a
spiritual relationship with one another, and show forth a tenderness which is
not of this world. They will, all of them, become elated from a draught of
divine love, and that union of theirs, that connection, will also abide
forever. Souls, that is, who will consign their own selves to oblivion, strip
from themselves the defects of humankind, and unchain themselves from human
bondage, will beyond any doubt be illumined with the heavenly splendours of
oneness, and will all attain unto real union in the world that dieth not.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’, quoted by the
Universal House of Justice in a message dated 28 December 2010 addressed to the
Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors)
