Project 365

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief

— Kahlil Gibran

Stay together, friends.
Don’t scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made of being awake.

The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
weeping.
That way it stays in the garden,
whereas another roundness
rolls through a dry riverbed looking
for what it thinks it wants.

Stay here, quivering with each moment
like a drop of mercury.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Jessie is leaving today to Indonesia. I miss her already 🙁

You will only be hurt a finite number of times during your life. You have an infinite number of ways to deal with it.

— Iain Thomas @ I Wrote This For You

I know you’ll be fine. You will always be :). Trust me.

O Allah, make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the remover of my sadness, and the purger of my anxiety.

— Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

Amin ya Rab.

A woman worries about the future
until she gets a husband,
while a man never worries about the future
until he gets a wife.

— Proverb

Hahaha! This made my day! 🙂

This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself.

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

How will you know the difficulties of being human if you’re always flying off to blue perfection?

Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire

— Jalal ad-Din Rumi

We help people when big things happen to them, when you see them getting hit by a car, when a brother or a sister or a father or a mother dies, we’re there for them because we can see that death kills more than the person it takes. And yet, the people around us who die a little all the time, moment by moment, who require the least help, the smallest sacrifice, are the ones we ignore completely.

— Iain Thomas @ I Wrote This For You

Just a reminder for myself. And for anyone who reads this.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

–  St. Augustine

The best way to be great, is to not try to be great. Do something good for someone, without seeking their thanks or their praise and you will be rewarded with a feeling from within. Which is a thousand times better than a feeling from without.

— Iain Thomas @ I Wrote This For You

Indeed, the feeling from within. That’s something powerful that can’t be replaced by anything else.