Why We Exist - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/why-we-exist/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:27:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Spiritual and Material Reality: What’s the Difference? https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-and-material-reality-whats-the-difference/ https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-and-material-reality-whats-the-difference/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84635 When we live in cultures that increasingly insist on solely material conceptions of reality, then we’re defined only as material beings, and that limited definition excludes a huge part of...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-and-material-reality-whats-the-difference/feed/ 3 Why Am I Here? https://bahaiteachings.org/why-am-i-here/ https://bahaiteachings.org/why-am-i-here/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=51756 Why Am I Here?Do you remember when you first framed that universal human question, the one we all eventually ask: “Why am I here?”  I do: it happened one warm summer night in...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/why-am-i-here/feed/ 3 Exploring the Role of Connection in Human Development https://bahaiteachings.org/exploring-the-role-of-connection-in-human-development/ https://bahaiteachings.org/exploring-the-role-of-connection-in-human-development/#comments Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=86297 Human connectionsWe human beings are meaning makers. From the moment of birth until the hour of death, life unfolds within our inborn desire to make sense of things.  Questions of meaning...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/exploring-the-role-of-connection-in-human-development/feed/ 1 Our Modern Crisis of Identity: Who Are We? https://bahaiteachings.org/our-modern-crisis-of-identity-who-are-we/ https://bahaiteachings.org/our-modern-crisis-of-identity-who-are-we/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84602 Our Modern Crisis of Identity: Who Are We?When we fail to know who we are, it can lead to untold suffering and wasted, misspent lives — ultimately contributing to the causes of wars and strife and keeping...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/our-modern-crisis-of-identity-who-are-we/feed/ 0 How to Leave a Legacy in This World https://bahaiteachings.org/how-to-leave-a-legacy-in-this-world/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-to-leave-a-legacy-in-this-world/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84445 A person casting a large shadow: concept of leaving a good legacy behindA friend of mine once told me this disturbing but true fact: in a few hundred years — a mere blink in the span of cosmic time — no one...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-to-leave-a-legacy-in-this-world/feed/ 1 How Do We Feel Safe in a Dangerously Disordered World? https://bahaiteachings.org/how-do-we-feel-safe-in-a-dangerously-disordered-world/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-do-we-feel-safe-in-a-dangerously-disordered-world/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=84364 How Do We Feel Safe in a Dangerously Disordered World?If you keep up with the news today, you undoubtedly know of the extraordinary perils of our time, from wars and rumors of wars to the deepening divisions and decline...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-do-we-feel-safe-in-a-dangerously-disordered-world/feed/ 2 How to Start Answering the Question “Who Am I?” https://bahaiteachings.org/how-start-answering-question-who-am-i/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-start-answering-question-who-am-i/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=83760 How to Start Answering the Question “Who Am I?”We live in an age of identity. Discovering our individual identities defines the quest of so many contemporary souls. As a result, “Who am I?” has become a central question...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/how-start-answering-question-who-am-i/feed/ 0 The Curious Case of the Twin Mysteries: Humanity, and Our Creator https://bahaiteachings.org/curious-case-twin-mysteries-humanity-creator/ https://bahaiteachings.org/curious-case-twin-mysteries-humanity-creator/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=82744 Isn’t it curious that one ‘unknown’ or ‘unknowable’ may help in finding the key to another mystery? After all, that’s the way we usually gain knowledge – by starting with...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/curious-case-twin-mysteries-humanity-creator/feed/ 0 The Secret of Life: Seeing in Symbols https://bahaiteachings.org/the-secret-of-life-seeing-in-symbols/ https://bahaiteachings.org/the-secret-of-life-seeing-in-symbols/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:00:56 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=81416 If you search online for the topic “the secret of life,” you’ll find a hundred books with that title and a thousand explanations from various bloggers and writers – but...

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