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24No. 292 | May 2025Consolidate your faith because you are not a materialistic creature. Those who consider the human being a materialistic creature consider him to be an animal. You are a creature who has a materialistic dimension, but more important than that is your spiritual side; you possess a divine soul. You have an abstract self. If you are at the service of God, the Most Exalted, the Most High, then your %u2018self%u2019 will become purged and purified, and you will achieve happiness. You will embrace this happiness under any circumstances; even in dying. (June 12, 1979)Do not think too highly of the West. There is no basis for humanity there. It is the West that is eradicating the bases of human ethics. It is the West that is trampling upon human dignity. But we imagine that the West possesses everything. Now that the West enjoys the automobile, it ought to have everything. But in laws, our laws are richer than those of the whole world. (June 9, 1979)Do not think that Westerners have progressed. They have advanced materially, but they have Imam Khomeini%u2019s Views on Ethics and Spirituality