Let your vision be world-embracing

Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self.
Baha’u’llah

This is the hour when ye must associate with all the earth’s peoples in extreme kindliness and love, and be to them the signs and tokens of God’s great mercy.
‘Abdu’l-Baha

And for everyone it is now easy to travel to any land, to associate and exchange views with its peoples, and to become familiar, through publications, with the conditions, the religious beliefs and the thoughts of all men. In like manner all the members of the human family, whether peoples or governments, cities or villages, have become increasingly interdependent. For none is self-sufficiency any longer possible, inasmuch as political ties unite all peoples and nations, and the bonds of trade and industry, of agriculture and education, are being strengthened every day. Hence the unity of all mankind can in this day be achieved. Verily this is none other but one of the wonders of this wondrous age, this glorious century.
‘Abdu’l-Baha

Photo: L’Avenue des Champs Élysées, Paris, one of the great streets in one of the great cities of the world, as seen from atop the Arc de Triomphe.

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