The Soul's Submission to God
"If evil has a name, it is surely the deliberate violation of the hard-won covenants of peace and reconciliation by which people of goodwill seek to escape the past and to build together a new future. By its very nature, unity requires self-sacrifice. ;…self-love', the Master states, 'is kneaded into the very clay of man.' The ego, termed by Him the 'insistent self', resists instinctively constraints imposed on what it conceives to be its freedom. To wilingly forgo the satisfactions that licence affords, the individual must come to believe that fulfilment lies elsewhere. Ultimately, it lies, as it has always done, in the soul’s submission to God."
The Universal House of Justice in One Common Faith
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Submission is a powerful subject, and I would offer these points too, from the Baha'i writings:
"Let us also bear in mind that the keynote of the Cause of God is not dictatorial authority, but humble fellowship, not arbitrary power, but the spirit of frank and loving consultation."
"Nothing short of the spirit of a true Bahá'í can hope to reconcile the principles of mercy and justice, of freedom and submission, of the sanctity of the right of the individual and of self-surrender, of vigilance, discretion and prudence on the one hand and fellowship, candour and courage on the other."
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