“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” — Kafka (via soul-surfer)
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#sufism #poetry peace was always to invoke Your name pulsed blow resonates every exhale
just one breath away
You have always been
just one breath away
is effortless
but carried on a soft breath
it shakes the sky
dissipates into the cosmic wind
storms of calamity
becomes the coolness of a gentle breeze
adds to Your glory
inhale from Your abundance
i need You to breathe
-naveed ahmad 2007
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Michelle Qureshi: The Five Intoxications -
According to the thinkers of the East, there are five different intoxications: of beauty, youth and strength; then the intoxication of wealth; the third is power, command, the power of ruling; and there is the fourth intoxication, which is the intoxication of learning, of knowledge. But all…
“We’ve forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that’s the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.” — Cornel West (via enchantingconfessions)
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