God Centered
"Center your thoughts in the Well-Beloved, rather than in your own selves." (repeat) 1
"Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self." (repeat) 2
The heart is the throne of God's Revelation, and His boundless love, and His boundless love.
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Chorus: Oh, center all your thoughts on God's Kingdom.. (repeat)
You'll always be assured love, you'll always be assured love.
The virtues that you need are all with Him.
Oh, center all your thoughts on God's bounties. (repeat)
You'll always be assured love, you'll always be assured love.
Throw out your need for any self-esteem.
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References:
1 "Center your thoughts in the Well-Beloved, rather than in your own selves."
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings, p. 167)
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2 "Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self."
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings, p. 94)
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"That the heart is the throne, in which the Revelation of God the All-Merciful is centered, is attested by the holy utterances which We have formerly revealed." (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 185)
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"Every good thing is of God, and every evil thing is from yourselves. Will ye not comprehend?"
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings, p. 149)
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"Look not, O people, at the things ye possess. Look rather at the things God hath sent down unto you. This, surely, will be better for you than the whole of creation, could ye but perceive it."
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 146)
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"God is the supreme center. The more we turn toward this center of light, the greater will be our capacity." (Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 218)
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"Likewise in the spiritual realm of intelligence and idealism there must be a center of illumination, and that center is the everlasting, ever-shining Sun, the Word of God. Its lights are the lights of reality which have shone upon humanity, illumining the realm of thought and morals, conferring the bounties of the divine world upon man. These lights are the cause of the education of souls and the source of the enlightenment of hearts, sending forth in effulgent radiance the message of the glad-tidings of the kingdom of God. In brief, the moral and ethical world and the world of spiritual regeneration are dependent for their progressive being upon that heavenly center of illumination. It gives forth the light of religion and bestows the life of the spirit, imbues humanity with archetypal virtues and confers eternal splendors. This Sun of Reality, this center of effulgences is the prophet or Manifestation of God. Just as the phenomenal sun shines upon the material world producing life and growth, likewise the spiritual or prophetic Sun confers illumination upon the human world of thought and intelligence, and unless it rose upon the horizon of human existence the kingdom of man would become dark and extinguished"
(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 254)
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"The world, indeed each existing being, proclaims to us one of the names of God, but the reality of man is the collective reality, the general reality, and is the center where the glory of all the perfections of God shine forth. That is to say, for each name, each attribute, each perfection which we affirm of God, there exists a sign in man; if it were otherwise, man could not imagine these perfections, and could not understand them.... Consequently the Divinity of God, which is the sum of all perfections, reflects itself in the reality of man; that is to say, the Essence of Oneness is the gathering of all perfections, and from this unity He casts a reflection upon the human reality.... If man did not exist, the universe would be without result, for the object of existence is the appearance of the perfections of God."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 310)
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"It is then ascertained and proved that the Holy Manifestations are the center of the bounty, signs, and perfections of God. Blessed are those who receive the light of the divine bounties from the enlightened Dawning-points!
We hope that the friends of God, like an attractive force, will draw these bounties from the source itself, and that they will arise with such illumination and signs that they will be evident proofs of the Sun of Reality."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 323)
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"You must thank God that your efforts are high and noble, that your endeavors are worthy, that your intentions are centered upon the Kingdom of God and that your supreme desire is the acquisition of eternal virtues."
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 336)