With the 19 Day Challenge ended, we invite you to continue to follow Sifter of Dust and share it with your friends and neighbors. The site is intended to help people of all backgrounds become familiar with the astonishing beauty and majesty of the Baha’i Writings.  Baha’u’llah consistently emphasized that His Revelation was for all human beings living on the planet, and those of us who have had the opportunity to read and study its teachings have been tremendously enriched by it. Our goal is to share that with others in the most unobtrusive and honest way possible.

Each Revelation has used a new “language”, new symbols and images to express profound spiritual truths. For instance, Jesus spoke in parables, Muhammad in a poetic form of Arabic. Both of those were new to the people of their time in history. Baha’u’llah’s Revelation and the Baha’i Writings generally also have created a new “spiritual language”, one that is extraordinarily rich and deep with meaning and significance.  Part of our goal is to help de-code that language a bit, based on our own limited understanding, to allow more and more people to “drink deep” from the “living waters” of Baha’u’llah’s Revelation.

One important caveat. The effort to fully appreciate the depth and richness of Baha’u’llah’s Revelation is like trying to swallow the sun. The Baha’i Writings can never be encompassed by one person’s interpretation, and therefore we are only expressing our own personal understanding. Our presentation is therefore only intended as a “jumping off point”, a way we have framed the ideas in our own minds so that they make sense to us- and we share that as in the hope that it might make them more accessible to you.

With that said, we will continue the process of posting both inspirational and informative quotations and passages, adding in some short essays to provide context. Please join us! (and tell your friends…!)

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