O thou young in age and great in mind!

There is many a young child who is mature and grown up, and many an aged one who is ignorant and stupid. Growth and maturity are in intellect and understanding and not in age and duration of life.

'Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha v1, p. 181

This is indeed strange...

...There are men whose eyes are only open to physical progress and to the evolution in the world of matter. These men prefer to study the resemblance between their own physical body and that of the ape, rather than to contemplate the glorious affiliation between their spirit and that of God. This is indeed strange, for it is only physically that man resembles the lower creation, with regard to his intellect he is totally unlike it.

'Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 71

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