Spiritual vs. animal condition
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Labor to destroy animal condition[edit]
"We must therefore labour to destroy the animal condition, till the meaning of humanity cometh to light."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Seven Valleys, par. 71
True life is life of the spirit[edit]
"True life is not the life of the flesh but the life of the spirit. For the life of the flesh is common to both men and animals, whereas the life of the spirit is possessed only by the pure in heart who have quaffed from the ocean of faith and partaken of the fruit of certitude"
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, par. 128
(Not to be content with animal existence)[edit]
“How can man be content to lead only an animal existence when God has made him so high a creature?”
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 122
