‘Abdu’l-Bahá tells us to “behold a beautiful garden full of flowers, shrubs, and trees. Each flower has a different charm, a peculiar beauty, its own delicious perfume and beautiful color. The trees too, how varied are they in size, in growth, in foliage—and what different fruits they bear! Yet all these flowers, shrubs and trees spring from the self-same earth, the same sun shines upon them and the same clouds give them rain.” And he goes on to say, “If you meet those of different race and color from yourself . . . think of them as different colored roses growing in the beautiful garden of
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