Posted in Character, Culture, Life, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Society, tagged flickr, quote, Society, Life, Quotations, Character, Photography, Sacrifice, Self-sacrifice, realization, Culture on February 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by superkev
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
—Eric Hoffer
Posted in Life, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Society, Verse, tagged Society, Humanity, island, Life, Poetry, Quotations, Death, Mankind, Quotes, Verse, Man, Continent, Sea, Europe, Diminish, Bell, Bells, Tolls, John Donne, Brotherhood on January 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by MarceloRuiz
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own [...]
Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Society, tagged Acknowledge, Blind, Blinding, Cause, Cold, Demons, desires, Desperations, Detached, Emotions, Fears, flickr, Heart, Intent, Intention, Judge, Judgement, Life, Mankind, Mind, Photography, Probe, Purpose, Realities, Senseless, Society, Thoughts, Understand, World on January 2, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Photograph by waqar bukhari
We, not one of us know another’s intention and yet we judge. How we judge! What is in another’s heart and mind, the workings of their thoughts - how do we know such thing? We don’t. Many times we don’t know our own heart and mind and not knowing our own we [...]
"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
