On Spiritual Search: The Never-Ending Continuum

The Baha'i core activities of study circles, devotional meetings and children's classes, which are open to all, Baha'i and not, provide wonderful support for the process of personal spiritual discovery. Each one of us is on our own spiritual path but we have each other to guide and inspire us along the way. For the November 2005 BWNS story on how a devotional meeting in New York supported the process of spiritual discovery among its attendees, click here.

Because free will is an inherent endowment of the soul, each person who is drawn to explore Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings will need to find his own place in the never-ending continuum of spiritual search. He will need to determine, in the privacy of his own conscience and without pressure, the spiritual responsibility this discovery entails. In order to exercise this autonomy intelligently, however, he must gain both a perspective on the processes of change in which he, like the rest of the earth’s population, is caught up and a clear understanding of the implications for his own life.

The Universal House of Justice, One Common Faith, paragraph 67