Posted by Jonah on July 30, 2101 at 17:26:11:

In Reply to: Looking for Quotation posted by Vicki on July 30, 2101 at 11:50:09:

Hi. This question came up a couple years ago -- see the end of http://bahai-library.org/wwwboard/index99.html . Here's a posting contribute in response then:

Posted by Shirley Macias on January 19, 1999 at 22:50:00:

This delightful quote is from a 1930's book "The Garden of the Heart" by Frances Esty:

"To one who visited in Haifa, 'Abdu'l-Baha said substantially, in likening the Cause of God to a Garden: 'At the gate of the garden some stand and look within, but do not care to enter. Others step inside, behold its beauty, but do not penetrate far. Still others encircle this garden inhaling the fragrance of the flowers, having enjoyed its full beauty, pass out again by the same gate. But there are always some who enter and, becoming intoxicated with the splendor of what they behold, remain for life to tend the garden'."

The Garden of the Heart
Compilation by Frances Esty
Roycrofters, NYMCMXXX (1930)
Approved by the Reviewing Committee
of the NSA of the US and Canada

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