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“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Beauty
Posted in Photography, Quotations, tagged Beauty, flickr, Flower, Image, Petals, photograph, Quotation, quote, Rabindranath Tagore on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Are you kidding!?
Posted in Ramblings, tagged Children, Darfur, Disease, Famine, Humanity, Judicial, News, Poeple, Religion, School, Sudan, Teacher, Teddy Bear on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Photograph by GH avisualagency
Headline: “Teacher charged over Sudan row”
“A British teacher has been charged in Sudan with insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs.” – BBC
And all because the students in her class decided to name their pet teddy bear Muhammad (pbuh), which is the most common name in the [...]
A Wave Within
Posted in Poetry, tagged appreciate, Beauty, beloved, candles, daggers, delicate, desire, emptiness, extinguish, fallen, fate, flickr, Ghazal, grave, heavenly, inspired, island, Life, melodies, memories, nameless, Nasir Kazmi, night, Painting, Poety, silence, silent, sleep, slumber, soul, thirst, time, Translation, unfulfilled, unsung, uproar, Urdu, waters, Wave, window, Within, wound on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ancient
Posted in Life, Quotations on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Photograph by Mharrsch
Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
Ancient times were the youth of the world.
- Francis Bacon
O Gentle Sleep!
Posted in Poetry, Quotations, Verse on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Photograph by Meeshosaur
O sleep! O gentle sleep!
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribes,
Upon uneasy pallests stretching thee,
And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of [...]
ENDURE
Posted in Ramblings on November 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by IMkhan
I’ve always felt that life is a test, a test of our endurance of whatever struggles and obstacles thrown our way. Of course, my faith influences this outlook because of a saying that’s never far from my mind “God doesn’t inflict upon his creation what his creation cannot endure.” But, I also feel [...]
Courage
Posted in Life, Quotations on November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
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