Posted in Books, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Abandonely, Beauty, Books, Complexity, Eyes, Felt, Life, Lifetime, Mind, Moment, Passages, Read, Simplicity, Unveiled, Value, Wisdom, words, Writing on May 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by ryan loucks photography
Sometimes I write down passages from the books I read for the sheer beauty in which the words are written. Sometimes they are a mere three words and sometimes whole pages.
Sometimes it is the simplicity of the words that carry the complexity of a lifetime. And sometimes it is the complexity of [...]
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Posted in Life, Poetry, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Beauty, Poetry, World, Nothing, Light, Sight, Dawn, Random, Peace, Stillness, Tune, Darkness, Give, Illuminated, Vision, Glory, Give Me on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photograph by sam_samantha
give me light
if it be darkness illuminated
give me then darkness
if darkness be thy sight
give me thy vision
if a vision be that of beauty
give me then the world in glory
if glory be a tune of stillness
give me then the raising of the early dawn
and if there be nothing for you to give me
give me then [...]
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Posted in Photography, Quotations, tagged Beauty, flickr, Flower, Image, Petals, photograph, Quotation, quote, Rabindranath Tagore on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Photographed by ProSikhMedia
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
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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 »
Painting by apaintingaday
Within me a wave has swept up – just [...]
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Orginally uploaded by Freddy Holiday
What thing shall be held up to woman’s beauty?
Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is all
The world, but an awning scaffolded amid
The waste perilous Eternity, to lodge
This Heaven-wander’d princess, woman’s beauty?
The East and West kneel down to thee, the North
And South; and all for thee their shoulders bear
The [...]
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"A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings" by Coleman Barks
"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
