To turn one’s “face wholly” towards God

I implore Thee [God]…to enable me to drink deep of the living waters through which Thou hast vivified the hearts of Thy chosen ones and quickened the souls of them that love Thee, that I may, at all times and under all conditions, turn my face wholly towards Thee. 

- Baha’u’llah  (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah')

Reason for creation

Magnified be Thy name, O Lord my God!... Thou didst wish to make Thyself known unto men; therefore, Thou didst, through a word of Thy mouth, bring creation into being and fashion the universe. There is none other God except Thee, the Fashioner, the Creator, the Almighty, the Most Powerful. 

- Baha’u’llah  (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah')

To remove the “veils” that “shut me out” from God

Unto Thee be praise, O Lord my God! I entreat Thee… to rend asunder the veils that shut me out from Thee, that I may hasten unto the Fountain-Head of Thy mighty inspiration, and to the Day-Spring of Thy Revelation and bountiful favors, and may be immersed beneath the ocean of Thy nearness and pleasure. 

- Baha’u’llah  (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah)

“mysteries of Divine Wisdom”

Do thou meditate on that which We have revealed unto thee, that thou mayest discover the purpose of God, thy Lord, and the Lord of all worlds. In these words the mysteries of Divine Wisdom have been treasured.

- Bahá’u’lláh  (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh’)

“the sign of the intellect is contemplation”

Bahá’u’lláh says there is a sign (from God) in every phenomenon: the sign of the intellect is contemplation and the sign of contemplation is silence, because it is impossible for a man to do two things at one time—he cannot both speak and meditate. 

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá  (From a talk; Paris Talks: Addresses given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Paris in 1911–1912)