Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson
Man I Want To Be By Chris Young
Baha'i Writings on Spiritual Transformation:
"For material civilization is like unto a beautiful body, and spiritual civilization is like unto the spirit of life. If that wondrous spirit of life enters this beautiful body, the body will become a channel for the distribution and development of the perfections of humanity."
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 11)
"How excellent, how honorable is man if he arises to fulfil his responsibilities; how wretched and contemptible, if he shuts his eyes to the welfare of society and wastes his precious life in pursuing his own selfish interests and personal advantages. Supreme happiness is man's, and he beholds the signs of God in the world and in the human soul, if he urges on the steed of high endeavor in the arena of civilization and justice."
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 3)
"What is the purpose of our lives?'
To acquire virtues. We come from the earth; why were we transferred from the mineral to the vegetable kingdom -- from the plant to the animal kingdom? So that we may attain perfection in each of these kingdoms, that we may possess the best qualities of the mineral, that we may acquire the power of growing as in the plant, that we may be adorned with the instincts of the animal and possess the faculties of sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste, until from the animal kingdom we step into the world of humanity and are gifted with reason, the power of invention, and the forces of the spirit."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 176)
Music Bibliography:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for by U2 is on the Joshua Tree album
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking for by U2 is on the Joshua Tree album
Man In The Mirror By Michael Jackson is on the album: The Essential Michael Jackson
The Man I Want To Be by Chris Young is on the album The Man I Want To Be
All songs are available on iTunes
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