"The questions you ask in your letter about individual guidance have two
aspects, one might say. It is good that people should turn to God and
beseech His aid in solving their problems and guiding their acts, indeed
every day of their lives, if they feel the desire to do so. But they
cannot possibly impose what they feel to be their guidance on anyone else,
let alone on Assemblies or Committees, as Baha'u'llah has expressly laid
down the law of consultation and never indicated that anything else
superseded it."
"As to meditation: This also is a field in which the individual is free.
There are no set forms of meditation prescribed in the teachings, no plan
as such, for inner development. The friends are urged--nay enjoined--to
pray, and they also should meditate, but the manner of doing the latter is
left entirely to the individual."