Thus Jesus, Son of Mary, whilst seated one day and speaking
in the strain of the Holy Spirit, uttered words such as these: “O people! My
food is the grass of the field, wherewith I satisfy my hunger. My bed is the
dust, my lamp in the night the light of the moon, and my steed my own feet.
Behold, who on earth is richer than I?” By the righteousness of God! Thousands
of treasures circle round this poverty, and a myriad kingdoms of glory yearn
for such abasement! Shouldst thou attain to a drop of the ocean of the inner
meaning of these words, thou wouldst surely forsake the world and all that is
therein, and, as the Phoenix wouldst consume thyself in the flames of the
undying Fire.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Book of Certitude’)
