Photograph by .ash
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
- Buddha
Archive for March, 2008
Thoughts
Posted in Character, Life, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, Society, tagged Buddha, flickr, Photography, Think, Thoughts, World on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Experience of Peace
Posted in Life, Photography, Poetry, Prose, Ramblings, Random, tagged Difficulty, Experience, flickr, Life, Original, Peace, Photography, Tranquility, Writing on March 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Photograph by Fran Barrero
Had you not known difficulty
you would not know tranquility
From the experience of one
comes the peace of the other
By RaatKiRanii (K.F.S)
6-Word Memoir
Posted in Life, tagged Bloom, Fiction, flickr, Friend Concept, Hemingway, intimate, Life, Meme, Memoir, Photography, Power, Progressing, Represent, Revealing, Searching, seeking, Six, Summarize, Tagged, Task, wither, words, Writer on March 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Photograph by ~priyak~
I’ve been tagged by my good friend, Baekho to write a six-word memoir. This concept apparently came about due to Hemingway who summarized his own life in the following six words:
For Sale: Baby Shoes, never worn.
Personally, I’m not all too familiar with Hemingway and was at first confounded by his choice of words. Actually, [...]
Ebb and Flow
Posted in Fiction, Life, Passages, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, tagged Arabic, Arabic Proverb, Book, Change, Classic Literature, Ebb, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Fiction, flickr, Flow, Gaskell, Hand, Law, Lead, Literature, North and South, Ocean, Passage, Path, photograph, Photography, Quotations, quote, Trust, Veiled, World, World's law on March 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by dotlyc
“Trust in that veiled hand, which leads
None by the path that he would go;
And always be for change prepared,
For the world’s law is ebb and flow.
- “FROM THE ARABIC”
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (North and South, p.124)
"The Oxford History of Islam" by John L. Esposito (Editor)
"O wave! Plunge headlong into the dark seas,
And change thyself with many a twist and turn;
Thou wast not born for tile solace of the shore;
Arise, untamed, and find a path for thyself."
- Allama Muhammad Iqbal