The individual, Shoghi Effendi urges, must “struggle against the natural inertia that weighs him down in his effort to arise, shed, heroically and irrevocably, the trivial and superfluous attachments which hold him back, [and] empty himself of every thought that may tend to obstruct his path.”

"El individuo, Shoghi Effendi insta, debe "luchar contra la inercia natural que le pesa en su esfuerzo por surgir, despojarse de manera heróica e irrevocable, las ataduras triviales y superfluas que lo detienen, [y] vaciarse de todo pensamiento que tienda a obstruir su sendero".




(Citadel of Faith p. 148, as quoted in Paul Lample Creating a New Mind p. 6)