Summary

The Flowers Of Guidance Volume One Nine Instructive Steps to Gaining Knowledge Step 7: Happiness and Kindness
Animals are factors of this world too, and they enjoy it (here we see a herd of wild horses, enjoying the liberty of nature and its blessings).

So, kindness is the main factor to happiness and blessed be those who made this their slogan and love all creatures, so that they can establish merriment in themselves and their environment with this kindship. Such individuals stride on the path of righteousness, and are considered worthy servants of God, be they from any community or environment or unit, and be of any race; black, white, red, or yellow. This notion is the secret towards felicity and success.

In “Proverbs of Solomon,” section 17, it states “… a merry heart grants pleasant healing, but a broken spirit withers bone.” In the book “Vendidad Zand” of Avesta, it is said: “living in fear and lies is worse than death, since life is about fruition and enjoyment, and if these are deprived he is worse than a dead man.”