Stories of Humility

Abdu'l-Baha and Lua Getsinger at the Mohonk Conference in 1912

‘I, Me, My, Mine: Words Of The Devil!’

The first person singular seldom crept into the Master’s speech. He once told a group of New York friends that in the future the words ‘I’ and ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’ would be regarded as profane. Lua Getsinger reported that one day she…

Portrait of Hand of the Cause Faizi

Faizi Compared The Human Ego To ‘A Sharp Knife’…

One of the friends relates that when he first arrived in Bahrain he did not think Faizi was any different from anyone else and that, like the rest of them, he would enjoy a little flattery.  He very quickly realized that not…