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Désirée
Akhavan

Désirée Akhavan is an attorney and Co-Founder of Lazeez, a paleo baking business based in New York City. She is also a member of Ethical Business Building the Future and the Advisory Board of the Mona Foundation, a global NGO that promotes universal education and gender equality. Désirée is particularly interested in issues of "food as medicine", Corporate Social Responsibility, menstrual inequity, gender equity and girls education.

BY Désirée Akhavan

Normalizing Girls – and their Bodies – in Every Culture

Normalizing Girls – and their Bodies – in Every Culture

Désirée Akhavan | Oct 21, 2019

Our Spiritual Imperative to Stop Period Poverty

Our Spiritual Imperative to Stop Period Poverty

Désirée Akhavan | Oct 15, 2019

When Men Finally Own the Equality of Women

When Men Finally Own the Equality of Women

Désirée Akhavan | Oct 7, 2019

5 Steps Toward Healing Implicit Bias

5 Steps Toward Healing Implicit Bias

Désirée Akhavan | Aug 5, 2019

My Search for Oneness and a Path to Peace

My Search for Oneness and a Path to Peace

Désirée Akhavan | Jul 29, 2019

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When I choose to live as if everything is a miracl

When I choose to live as if everything is a miracle, it relieves my suffering and reminds me that miracles do happen all the time. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #Afterlife #Soul #Suffering #Trials

Force is losing its dominance, and mental alertnes

Force is losing its dominance, and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine and more permeated with the feminine ideals, or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced. - #AbdulBaha #Bahai #Spirituality #Women #EmancipationofWomen

What qualities would a spiritual civilization poss

What qualities would a spiritual civilization possess, and how on Earth do we build one? Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #WorldPeace #Unity #Peace

Act in such a way that your heart may be free from

Act in such a way that your heart may be free from hatred. Let not your heart be offended with anyone. If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him. Do not complain of others. Refrain from reprimanding them, and if you wish to give admonition or advice, let it be offered in such a way that it will not burden the bearer. Turn all your thoughts toward bringing joy to hearts. Beware! Beware! lest ye offend any heart. - #AbdulBaha⠀ ⠀ #bahai #spirituality #joy #love

Learn how one woman let go of a small concept of G

Learn how one woman let go of a small concept of God to trust in His boundless love. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #God #DoesGodExist #Love

One must see in every human being only that which

One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task. - #AbdulBaha⠀
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(Selections From the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá)

It seems hard to understand sometimes why there is

It seems hard to understand sometimes why there is so much suffering in the world – for me, especially, it has been truly challenging. Read the full article – link in bio 🔗 #Bahai #Spirituality #Adversity #Hope

Let each morn be better than its eve and each morr

Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday. Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches... Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of evil and corrupt affection, nor let your endeavors be spent in promoting your personal interest - #Bahaullah #Bahai #Spirituality #Unity #SpiritualGrowth
(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)

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