May 2013
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April 2013
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aidahrasheed:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/wan/3743576187.html
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“If you were not afflicted you would not make progress, and were you not making...”
– Imam al-Ghazali
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“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
March 2013
5 posts
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via excessivebookshelf)
“The true artist plays mad with all his soul, labors at the very lip of the...”
– John Gardner, On Moral Fiction
“Art begins in a wound, an imperfection—a wound inherent in the nature of...”
– John Gardner, On Moral Fiction
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“Canto XLV
BY EZRA POUND
With Usura
With usura hath no man a house of good...”
– http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241052
February 2013
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Tulsa Burning
1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma. More than 300 blacks killed and thousands made homeless after black veterans tried to prevent the lynching of a black youth who’d tripped and fallen on a white woman.
Don’t trip.
Your feet will land you
in a tree, dangling,
strange fruit
not even the birds would want to eat.
Don’t trip. The streets are full
of white women.
It will be...
from the seminary: An approach to dreams →
faatimahtheknight:
Dreams tend to excite us. They are an area of contemplation and introspection, sometimes even of intense elation, grief and anxiety. At its root though, dream is derived from a word which means joy or music; and in Arabic (hulm) it is from the h-l-m root meaning gentleness and mildness. Indeed a…
January 2013
12 posts
On Living by Nazim Hikmet →
reflectionsongenerosity:
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example— I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for example, your hands tied behind your back, your back to the...
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via alighthouseofwords)
“O Allah! It is not strange that I love You because I am a weak servant, but it...”
– Bayazid Bastami
(via ammarmali)
“If Romeo and Juliet had made appointments to meet, in the moonlight-swept...”
– Mary Oliver
“And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill...”
– Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (via theconsciousmuslim)
December 2012
8 posts
Watchmarcmanley:
“O’ child who once was me, come forward now. What is it that joins us together still? And what shall we say to one another?”
“The things that I wanted to actualize most came out of a rearing, an experience, a dreaming, a fearing, a hoping here. That’s what I’m talking about in terms of being American.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never...”
– ~Endymion, John Keats
“On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that...”
– related by al-Bukhari
“Know that it is abominable for an intelligent being to be beastly when he could...”
– al-Raghib al-Isfahani
“You are nothing, but your ‘nothing’ is better than existence.
You are drowned...”
– Rūmī (via theconsciousmuslim)
November 2012
2 posts
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman
October 2012
10 posts
Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no →
Bahia Shehab sends a message through her street art in Cairo:”You can crush the flowers, but you can’t delay spring.”
“Don’t spoil what you have by desiring what you haven’t;
remember that what you...”
– Epicurus (via theconsciousmuslim)
September 2012
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Cairo under my skin. I’ve been back in the Bay for six weeks, and Cairo is still there in the back of my mind, right at the edge of my vision. I knew it would stay, though I wanted to believe when I was there that I could leave it and it would stay left until I willed it back into my thoughts. Now I have a map of Maadi over my desk, my maydan, Maydan al Hurriya, right in the center. I miss...
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