She'd the light of a boundless love on every human being whom you meet... Abdul Baha

God wants us to love all people. We can show our love for God by loving each other. It is easy to love our family and friends. We can also learn to love people who are not members of our family and it takes a higher consciousness to love those who do not love us.

Here is a story of Abdul Baha demonstrating unconditional love for someone who did not love Him.

A Story about Abdul Baha

Abdul Baha in the prison city of Akka(in the Holy Land) for forty years. A man lived there who hated Abdul Baha so much that he would turn his back when he met Abdul Baha. One day they met in such a narrow street that the man was forced to meet Abdul Baha face to face. Abdul Baha touched the man on the shoulder and said, wait until I speak. However, great maybe your hatred for me, it can never be as strong as my love for you.

Cultivating the Spiritual Quality of Honesty.

Adorn your souls with the ornaments of honesty.

An ornament is something like a necklace or bracelet that people wear to make themselves look like people, such as honesty. Honesty means telling the truth, not stealing, and always doing what you said you are going to do.

Here is a about a little girl who learns about being honest.

Dooshima Steals Coconut

One day Dooshima's mother asked her to go to the shop to buy a needle and sew cotton. When Dooshima got to the shop, she saw a basket of ripe coconut. Coconut was her favorite food, but she had no money to buy them.

After Dooshima paid for the needle and sewing cotton, the shopkeeper turn away to help someone else. Dooshima looks at the coconut again. Quickly, she took two and ran down the road, away from the shop. She hid behind the tree and are the coconut. They tasted good, but soon she began to feel ashamed.

When she got home, Dooshima gave the needle and sewing cotton to her mother. Dooshima went outside to do her work, but she could not forget about the coconut. She felt ashamed. She remembers that God knows everything that we do. She said some prayers. Then she decided she must go tell the shopkeeper what she had done and accept her punishment.

We all have things in our lives that we are not especially proud of, or we don't enjoy remembering. Maybe we are even ashamed of what we have done or who we've been. If your life was a book, you d skip that chapter.

It's not surprising that when you meet someone new, you don't immediately want to confess all the bits of your past that you d rather forget. That's fine, you don't need to yet, but if you are going to stay with this person, sooner or later they are going to know about that dodgy period where you got into a bit of trouble with the police, or about the abortion, or the cross-dressing, or the fact that your father's an alcoholic.

You can sweep the little things under the carpet that time you cheated in your mathematics test when you were eight, for example. Or the fact that you went to see the spice girls live in concert ten times. But it's not the little things that are bothering you, is it? It's the big stuff you don't want them to know.

But they do have to know it. It's up to you whether you tell them everything on the first date, or whether you save it until you've known them for months. But sooner or later, it will be Ok. If they don't love you enough well, this is as good a way as any to find out.

If you wait too long to tell them, they will rightly be upset and hurt that you have been keeping it from them. So the right time to tell them is the point when finding out in the future would be worse than finding out now.