At the recent opening of the Dutch parliamentary year, Mona Milani-Lagas of the Baha'i community quotes from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s writings regarding the prerequisites for harmonious relationships: "The first condition is absolute love and harmony... They must be wholly freed from estrangement… for they are the waves of one sea, the drops of one river, the stars of one heaven, the rays of one sun, the trees of one orchard, the flowers of one garden."