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For gratitude to the beneficent Creator of the universe, and admiration of creation, involve the reasoned resolve to benefit all His creatures, study His works, and raise our souls, perfecting them; and tends to love of Him, resulting in obedience to His will, whether revealed through Nature or through human agency, or in our innate faculties for recognising justice and the good.
Source Duties of the Heart, Belief in the Existence of One Creator as the Basis of Ethics · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Bahya ibn Paquda, an eleventh-century Jewish philosopher, gratitude to the Creator and wonder at creation move us to do good to all His creatures and to love God. This evening, look back over your day: notice one thing in creation that filled you with wonder, and one gesture by which you did good to a living being, human or animal.
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