"Let your vision be world-embracing"

Let your vision be world-embracing, rather than confined to your own self . . . 

- Baha’u’llah  (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh’)

How a human being “can manifest all the potential forces with which his inmost true self hath been endowed”

Through the Teachings of this Day Star of Truth every man will advance and develop until he attaineth the station at which he can manifest all the potential forces with which his inmost true self hath been endowed. It is for this very purpose that in every age and dispensation the prophets of God and His chosen Ones have appeared amongst men, and have evinced such power as is born of God and such might as only the Eternal can reveal. 

- Baha’u’llah  (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh’)

“True loss” for a human being

True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self. 

-Baha’u’llah  (‘Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)

We need a Mediator to communicate with God

A mediator is necessary between man and the Creator -- one who receives the full light of the Divine Splendor and radiates it over the human world, as the earth's atmosphere receives and diffuses the warmth of the sun's rays.

If we wish to pray, we must have some object on which to concentrate. If we turn to God, we must direct our hearts to a certain center. If man worships God otherwise than through His Manifestation, he must first form a conception of God, and that conception is created by his own mind. As the finite cannot comprehend the Infinite, so God is not to be comprehended in this fashion. That which man conceives with his own mind he comprehends. That which he can comprehend is not God. That conception of God which a man forms for himself is but a phantasm, an image, an imagination, an illusion. There is no connection between such a conception and the Supreme Being.

If a man wishes to know God, he must find Him in the perfect mirror, Christ or Bahá'u'lláh. In either of these mirrors he will see reflected the Sun of Divinity.

As we know the physical sun by its splendor, by its light and heat, so we know God, the Spiritual Sun, when He shines forth from the temple of Manifestation, by His attributes of perfection, by the beauty of His qualities and by the splendor of His light. 

- 'Abdu'l-Baha  (From a talk to Mr. Percy Woodcock, 'Akká, 1909; quoted by Dr. John Esslemont in ‘Baha’u’llah and the New Era’)