February 2012
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December 2011
17 posts
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is...”
– Khalil Gibran
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I...”
– Rumi (via ms-lioness)
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“I asked a child, walking with a candle,
‘From where comes that...”
– Hasan al-Basri
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I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I didn’t work so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in contact with my friends.
I wish I’d allowed myself to be happy.
http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2011/05/31/the-top-5-regrets-people-make-on-their-deathbeds/
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“Awake, my dear.
Be kind
to your sleeping heart.
Take it out
into the vast...”
– Hafiz (via trusimplicity)
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“O God, I never hearken to the voices of the beasts or the rustle of the trees,...”
– Dhul-Nun al-Misri
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“Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.
The parable of His Light is a...”
– Al-Quran
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“My heart sighed, for my innermost being was in dejection;
Sleep no longer came,...”
– Imam Shafi’i
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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I...”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“We shall cry for Hussein for a thousand more years, because our sorrow for not...”
– Mahdi Modarresi (via trusimplicity)
November 2011
73 posts
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“Whatever is material shape, past, future, present, subjective or objective,...”
– Buddha (via theveiledlife)
“”Discover all that you are not — body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via theveiledlife)
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“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“Wealth has no permanence: it comes in the morning,
and at night it is scattered...”
– Rumi
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“In the presence of His Glory,
Closely watch your heart,
So your thoughts won’t...”
– Rumi (via theconsciousmuslim)
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“Beautiful people are not always good but good people are always beautiful.”
– Imam Ali (via theconsciousmuslim)
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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
– Rumi
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“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
– Mark Twain
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“Lovely days don’t come to you,
you should walk to them.”
– Rumi (via ialyaa)
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“In love, young and old are the same.
In love, loss and gain are the same.
In...”
– Farid al-Din Attar (via theconsciousmuslim)
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As I approach the beginning of my third decade on this here Earth I can’t help but feel entirely unperturbed by it all. I suppose this should be a rite of passage of sorts but birthdays feel like every other day for me. Sometimes they open up doors of legality and they sometimes thrust some sort of civic duty upon you; through the age-milestones of life you have all manner of social...
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“Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we’ve ever been,...”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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“Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I’m just as ecstatic as they are,
but...”
– Rumi (via partypropagandaprofessional)
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“My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you’ve been separated...”
– Rumi (via theconsciousmuslim)
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“Only he whose garment is rent by the violence of love is wholly pure from...”
– Rumi (via framesmedia)
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“Just as the sun rises bit by bit, it’s the sunnah of God for openings from Him...”
– Sheikh Hamza Yusuf (via trusimplicity)
“My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance & how...”
– Ibn Ata’illah al-Sakandari (via theconsciousmuslim)
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via atomos)
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“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a...”
– Jalal ad-Din Rumi (via randomhijabi)