One of the beautiful metaphors used in the Baha’i Writings is the “inner eye” and it’s ability to behold spiritual truth, like the outer eye can appreciate physical truths. Baha’u’llah taught that each of us has the ability to recognize spiritual beauty, but that our vision can be blinded by our own ego, attachment to material things, or a host of other “veils”.  In another analogy, He describes human beings as having an inner mirror, which can reflect light to others, but that mirror can be covered with dust and lose its luster. That “dust” on our soul is those very same attachments. One of the major purposes of spiritual life is to help us clean our mirrors, remove the veils, and see spiritual truth more clearly and manifest it in our lives. This particular quote was taken from the collection of Baha’u’llah’s Tablets known as “Tabernacle of Unity”, most of which were written to people of Zoroastrian background. But these images and ideas are very prevalent in the Hidden Words as well.