https://bahaiteachings.org/how-the-beauty-of-this-world-helps-us-understand-the-next/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:01:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://bahaiteachings.org/how-the-beauty-of-this-world-helps-us-understand-the-next/#comment-71165 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:01:28 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=70788#comment-71165 As a now-80-year-old, I do spend some time contemplating the next world, what it will be like, and expressing gratitude for “the world to come.” After all, this world has its beauties but also its trials. I will be joyful not to have to go through those in the next world. But what I’m really looking forward to is meeting up with all those I have loved in the Bahá’í Community over the years. And some I have admired, like Ravel and Rachmaninoff, among others!

]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-the-beauty-of-this-world-helps-us-understand-the-next/#comment-71164 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:49:59 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=70788#comment-71164 I love your image of the swimming pool. I had that same image recently, of sliding down á water slide into an Olympic size swimming pool of one of the attributes of God, like Omniscience, or Compassion, making a big, Joyful splash.

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