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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
Anais Nin (via elige)
"The surest way to corrupt youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Friedrich Nietzsche (via aslovelyasatree)
"Nothing’s left of me except for you; nothing’s left of you except for me — a stranger caressing his lover’s thigh: O my stranger! What are we to do with what’s left for us of the stillness, of the siesta that separates legend from legend?"
Mahmoud Darwish
"Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice."
Spinoza
"Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of truth that make you fight within yourself…"
Hafiz
"All creatures hold hands as we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way to even a greater being of soul, a being of just ecstatic light, forever entwined and at play with Him."
Hafiz
"Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you."
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you."
Hafiz
"When God takes care of the heart …, the breast lightens and the mystery of the spiritual realm [malakut] is revealed, and the veil of error vanishes and the reality of divine things shines in the heart."
Imam Al-Ghazali
"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
