Detachment

One is often times burdened by the weight of want in this temporal existence. This is because the want of material things is ultimately unfulfilling, yet society tells us that if we “buy this” and “drive that” life will be better and we will thus be happier. These things, in time, can do no more than return to the dust from which they came and what are we left with in that moment? We are left with nothing!!! True fulfillment, peace, and love of life exist in plentitude however; we need only know where to search and how to receive…

This situation is the dying of self and the living in God, the being poor in self and rich in the Desired One. Poverty as here referred to signifieth being poor in the things of the created world, rich in the things of God’s world. For when the true lover and devoted friend reacheth to the presence of the Beloved, the sparkling beauty of the Loved One and the fire of the lover’s heart will kindle a blaze and burn away all veils and wrappings. Yea, all he hath, from heart to skin, will be set aflame, so that nothing will remain save the Friend.

~The Seven Valleys (Baha’u'llah, founding Prophet of the Baha’i faith)