Prayers and Meditations, LX, Paragraph 3, Page
96, (Baha'i, Author: Baha'u'llah)
Amongst the crossings, I was again
shown the powerful simplicity of my own
past, how I'd been thrown into life at an
early age to make it on my own in the world.
But the final run of this experience found me
wearing the habit of a nun crossing
hundreds of mountaintops in a single
bound, not a single foot touching the valleys
below. My soul seemed to be alight in the
sky, high above the great mountains of the
Earth, and my legs were so astute they could
attain to each peak without need of contact
with the valleys below.
My first destination, however,
resided within a crevasse in a valley. Placing
upon my collar a simple metal pin, a sign
which indicated that I was amongst a
particular league of souls; those in the valley
were not to hurt me. Running again, this
time through the valleys, I came upon a
dark, dreary ghetto, where several derelicts
were following me. For a reason unknown to
me, I was unafraid. Everything here was
decomposing, dead and rotten from the
putridity of the sin of mankind. The 'Valley