When once the seeker hath ascended unto this station,
[completing the requirements of the “Garden of Search” he will enter the City
of Love and Rapture, whereupon the winds of love will blow and the breezes of
the spirit will waft. In this station the seeker is so overcome by the
ecstasies of yearning and the fragrances of longing that he discerneth not his
left from his right, nor doth he distinguish land from sea or desert from
mountain. At every moment he burneth with the fire of longing and is consumed by
the onslaught of separation in this world.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of Divine
Mysteries’)
