"If the health and well-being of the body be expended in the path of the Kingdom, this is very acceptable and praiseworthy; and if it be expended to the benefit of the human world in general-- even.. to their material benefit-- and be a means of doing good, that is also acceptable. But if the health and welfare of man be spent in sensual desires, in a life on the animal plane.. then disease were better.. nay, death itself were preferable.. If thou art desirous of health, wish thou health for serving the Kingdom.." ('Abdul-Baha) (114:4)

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Baha'u'llah & the New Era
J. Esslemont