Comments on: Harnessing the Amazing Power of Human Reflection https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/#comment-70876 Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:38:45 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=43821#comment-70876 Amazing to consider (reflect upon) the fact that so many people “go blindly on [their] way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” Let’s hope we have a different path.

]]> By: Gopal Krishnakumar Menon https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/#comment-31008 Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:43:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=43821#comment-31008 In this ethical ephemeral metaphysics of Macro n mini subjects we meditate on the Light which throws Light and touches the spirit we are endowed with.The spark of Light.

]]> By: rodney Richards https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/#comment-30939 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:37:03 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=43821#comment-30939 Baha’u’llah, in the Kitab-i-Iqan, also wrote this regarding the past traditional phrase on meditation: “The wine of renunciation must needs be quaffed, the lofty heights of detachment must needs be attained, and the meditation referred to in the words “One hour’s reflection is preferable to seventy years of pious worship” must needs be observed, so that the secret of the wretched behavior of the people might be discovered, those people who, despite the love and yearning for truth which they profess, curse the followers of Truth when once He hath been made manifest.” To me, meditation uncovers truth.

]]> By: Patricia Bastani https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/#comment-30925 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:38:41 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=43821#comment-30925 In reply to md v.

Thanks Mark!

]]> By: Patricia Bastani https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/#comment-30924 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:33:37 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=43821#comment-30924 I look back on my life since beginning the practice of meditation at 20 and then finding the Baha’i Faith a year later and am thankful and grateful that due to collective movements in the 60’s I was introduced to it’s value and benefits. My life took a very different path and your article captures this vital ingredient of meditation for a good and productive life perfectly. What a helpful article Rodney.

]]> By: md v https://bahaiteachings.org/harnessing-amazing-power-human-reflection/#comment-30920 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:42:57 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=43821#comment-30920 Contemplation hastens the evolution of the human species. Whoever finds this out and practices it will hasten the evolutionary future of the human family. —Thomas Keating

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