The “core of religious faith”

…the core of religious faith is that mystic feeling that unites man with God. This state of spiritual communion can be brought about and maintained by means of meditation and prayer. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer on 8 December 1935, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter dated 12 June 1984 written on its behalf to an individual believer; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)