"I'm interested to know what your life is like: what goals you aspire to (for yourself and your children); what challenges/problems you (and your family) are faced with.
Then I'd like to know what spiritual principles/teachings could be relevant for improving your life conditions (or for solving a chief life problem), and to know how I could support you in your efforts to implement them (besides with prayer) -- principles such as:
* service to mankind, including preparation for service (through studies/a profession)
* promoting the well-being and contentment of family members and kindred
* moral/spiritual training of children and youth
* attracting assistance from God through prayer and reflection over relevant passages in the Holy Writings
* shared responsibility (though with complementary roles) for women and men regarding chores, work and decision-making in general
* frank and open consultation with affected parties about issues concerning you and them
* seeing only the good in, and overlooking entirely the faults of others, i.e. forbearance and tolerance; etc."
Dicta:
Concern yourselves with one another. Help along one another's projects and plans. Grieve over one another. Let none in the whole country go in need. Befriend one another until ye become as a single body, one and all...- 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Consultation, #19
Today the confirmations of the Kingdom of Abha are with those who renounce themselves, forget their own opinions, cast aside personalities and are thinking of the welfare of others. Whosoever has lost himself has found the universe and the inhabitants thereof. Whosoever is occupied with himself is wandering in the desert of heedlessness and regret. The "master-key" to self-mastery is self-forgetting. The road to the palace of life is through the path of renunciation.- 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Star of the West, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 348, view here.
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