“Put out the lamp when thou wishest.
I shall know thy darkness and shall love it.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
The sound of my mother’s snores relax me, she is sleeping but I am the one who transcends into a clear open garden, drifting into pure safety…
All my stressful thoughts melt away into her peaceful rest.
We believe that God sees us from above. But he actually sees us from the inside.
- Shams Tabrizi
…you can't hate so much unless you love, too.
– Truman Capote, from “Children on Their Birthdays,” The Complete Stories (Vintage, 2005)
cookie
*you find a small creature in your home, you don’t know how he got there.
*he is holding a chocolate chip cookie.
*he offers you the treat.
*take it?
♥Yes No
I think I've lived more inside my head than I've ever lived outside of it ..
Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله stated:
"Following the desires
blinds the eye of the heart."
[Al-Fawāid | 101]
Here, I brought you flowers.
They needed sunshine and you were the obvious choice.
"Do you believe in God?" Agnes said, and May admitted she didn't. "That's all right. Sometimes love can take time."
– D. Wystan Owen, from “Virginia’s Birthday,” Other People’s Love Affairs: Stories (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018)
She has no idea where anything comes from anymore. She no longer believes that anything makes sense, even though she can't stop hoping.
– Kij Johnson, from “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories (Small Beer Press, 2012)
“We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.”
— Gabor Mate
”مَنْ يُحْرَمِ الرِّفْقَ يُحْرَمِ الْخَيْرَ“
“Whoever is deprived of gentleness, he is deprived of goodness."
—Prophet Muhammad ﷺ | Sunan Ibn Majah, 3687