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"What is the purpose of our lives?... To acquire virtues." (Pt 177) (85:6)

"The life of man is useful if he attains the perfections of man." (Pup 51) (85:7)

"True happiness depends on spiritual good and having the heart ever open to receive the Divine Bounty." (Pt 108) (85:8)

"No matter how much man may acquire material virtues, he will not be able to realize and express the highest possibilities of life without spiritual graces." (Pup 296) (85:9)

"Happy are the righteous that have attained unto the most great truth; happy are the wise that have recognized the straight path of God and turned unto His Kingdom; happy are the glad and sincere, the lamps of whose hearts burn with the knowledge of the All- Merciful and are protected from the rough winds of tests and sorrows; happy are the brave whose hearts the power of the oppressor cannot daunt; happy are the clear- sighted that have learned to distinguish the transitory from the eternal, that have turned their faces to the Imperishable and are named among the Immortals of the realm of power and glory." (B. World Vol 2 p63) (85:10)

"Strive, O people, to gain admittance into this vast Immensity for which God ordained neither beginning nor end, in which His voice hath been raised, and over which have been wafted the sweet savors of holiness and glory." (Bwf 35) (85:11)

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