Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
Give freely.
Give freely.
Collect moments.
Listen carefully.
Strive for grace.
Love unconditionally.
Be honest.
Live fearlessly.
Speak humbly.
Express gratitude.
Always......
Love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality.
Love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.
This world is like a mountain.
This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.
~ Shams Tabriz
There are fears that lie dormant
There are fears that lie dormant until you are called upon by life to confront and overcome them.
What matters is trusting yourself enough to confront it, walk through it and survive.
The Nightingale By Shams al -Din Muhammad Hafez -e Shirazi
THE nightingale with drops of his heart's blood
Had nourished the red rose, then came a wind,
And catching at the boughs in envious mood,
A hundred thorns about his heart entwined.
Like to the parrot crunching sugar, good
Seemed the world to me who could not stay
The wind of Death that swept my hopes away.
Light of mine eyes and harvest of my heart,
And mine at least in changeless memory!
Ah, when he found it easy to depart,
He left the harder pilgrimage to me!
Oh Camel-driver, though the cordage start,
For God's sake help me lift my fallen load,
And Pity be my comrade of the road!
My face is seamed with dust, mine eyes are wet.
Of dust and tears the turquoise firmament
Kneadeth the bricks for joy's abode; and yet . . .
Alas, and weeping yet I make lament!
Because the moon her jealous glances set
Upon the bow-bent eyebrows of my moon,
He sought a lodging in the grave-too soon!
I had not castled, and the time is gone.
What shall I play? Upon the chequered floor
Of Night and Day, Death won the game-forlorn
And careless now, Hafiz can lose no more.
Brave Woman by Zeki Majd
She is the bravest my eyes have ever seen
A lion bows, in shiver and fear
I am on my knees for I can not believe
A woman so beautiful, among us she breathes…
I offer this world and everything within to her feet…
I say proudly that I will protect her with fists…
She smiles, then gently she says to me…
I am a woman, strong and I do not need
Protection, for I may seem fragile
But I am stronger than steel…
I do not know what words to speak…
For I desire her love, and love her miserably…
But I have only my heart to offer
And she deserves better than me…
It does not matter that I love her endlessly…
She lives in a world that the devil dreams to flee…
And yet she stands strong with a smile shinning through her lips…
With a laugh musical, poetry to my ears…
She is a brave woman…gentle and free
I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me.
I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me..
"I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters.
I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me...
I stopped fighting with my in laws...
I stopped fighting for attention...
I stopped fighting to meet peoples expectation of me...
I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate people..
I stopped fighting to please everyone...
I stopped fighting to prove they were wrong about me....
I left such fights for those who have nothing else to fight...
And I started fighting for
my vision,
my dreams,
my ideas and
my destiny.
The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful & so much more content."
Some fights are not worth your time..... Choose what you fight for wisely.
So far as I get closer to reach 41 I have learned that..
So far as I get closer to reach 41 I have learned that....
- things don’t always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should;
- that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before;
- that some broken things stay broken;
-that mistakes are the greatest lessons in life if you know how to pass your ego;
- and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have hope and people who love you.....
One day it just clicks.
One day it just clicks.
You realize what is important and what isn’t.
You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself.
You realize how far you have come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that they’ll never recover.
And then you smile.
You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you have fought to become.
Steve Maraboli
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