(*montreal) contentment

"Consider the pettiness of men's minds. They ask for that which injureth them, and cast away the thing that profiteth them."
- Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶122

"I bear witness at this moment, O my God, to my helplessness and Thy sovereignty, my feebleness and Thy power. I know not that which profiteth me or harmeth me; Thou art, verily, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Do Thou decree for me, O Lord, my God, and my Master, that which will make me feel content with Thine eternal decree and will prosper me in every world of Thine. Thou art in truth the Gracious, the Bountiful."
- Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayers, p. 143-144

"O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials."
- The Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh, #48 from the Arabic

"They that follow their lusts and corrupt inclinations, have erred and dissipated their efforts. They, indeed, are of the lost."
- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CXXXVI, p. 297

"With firm determination, with the whole affection of your heart, and with the full force of your words, turn ye unto Him, and walk not in the ways of the foolish. The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance of reality. Set not your affections upon it. Break not the bond that uniteth you with your Creator, and be not of those that have erred and strayed from His ways. Verily I say, the world is like the vapor in a desert, which the thirsty dreameth to be water and striveth after it with all his might, until when he cometh unto it, he findeth it to be mere illusion. It may, moreover, be likened unto the lifeless image of the beloved whom the lover hath sought and found, in the end, after long search and to his utmost regret, to be such as cannot "fatten nor appease his hunger."

O My servants! Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane, things contrary to your wishes have been ordained and manifested by God, for days of blissful joy, of heavenly delight, are assuredly in store for you. Worlds, holy and spiritually glorious, will be unveiled to your eyes. You are destined by Him, in this world and hereafter, to partake of their benefits, to share in their joys, and to obtain a portion of their sustaining grace. To each and every one of them you will, no doubt, attain."
- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII, pp. 328-329