Memorizing & Reflecting on Baha'i Writings : The “promptings of the self”

Follow not the promptings of the self, for it summoneth insistently to wickedness and lust…

- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)

Advice from Baha’u’llah:

The sanctified souls should ponder and meditate in their hearts regarding the methods of teaching. From the texts of the wondrous, heavenly Scriptures they should memorize phrases and passages bearing on various instances, so that in the course of their speech they may recite divine verses whenever the occasion demandeth it, inasmuch as these holy verses are the most potent elixir, the greatest and mightiest talisman. (Baha'u'llah, ‘Tablets of Baha'u'llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)

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The “promptings of the self”