Directing thoughts fruitfully: caring less for material, more for spiritual things

`Abdu'l-Bahá has said: --

We must strive to attain to [the devotional attitude] ... We can attain to it by thinking and caring less for material things and more for the spiritual. The further we go from the one, the nearer we are to the other. The choice is ours. (On prayer)

A prayer: --

O Thou the Compassionate God. Bestow upon me a heart which, like unto glass, may be illumined with the light of Thy love, and confer upon me thoughts which may change this world into a rose garden through the outpourings of heavenly grace.

Thou art the Compassionate, the Merciful. Thou art the Great Beneficent God.
--`Abdu'l-Bahá, BP 72

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