Posted in Life, Prose, Ramblings, Random, Writing, tagged Blind, Broken, Call, Conveyance, Crippled, Cry, Darkness, Dazed, Deaf, Disappear, Essence, Everywhere, Fade, Feel, Grasp, Groping, Hand, Heart, Life, Linger, Lost, Meaning, Mind, Music, Never, Power, Read, Scattered, Shattered, Sight, soul, Staggering, Stumbling, Sword, Thought, Trembled, Understand, Voice, Weaving, Wind, words, World, Write, Writing on May 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Photograph by pl9300
…and if I could not read or write I would be crippled
the soul of words…
if this sight could not recognize the little shapes I saw before me…
if this heart could not feel their essence as I felt the world around me…
if this mind could not understand their meaning, grasp it’s power…
if this hand trembled at [...]
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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 Character, Life, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, Society, tagged Buddha, flickr, Photography, Think, Thoughts, World on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Photograph by .ash
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
- Buddha
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Posted in Fiction, Life, Passages, Photography, Quotations, Quotes, tagged photograph, flickr, quote, Quotations, Photography, Change, World, Flow, Fiction, Ebb, Ocean, Trust, Veiled, Hand, Lead, Path, Law, World's law, Arabic, Arabic Proverb, Passage, Book, Literature, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, North and South, Classic Literature, Gaskell 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)
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Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged flickr, Music, silence, Life, Photography, World, Dawn, Random, Rambling, Morning, Observation, Peace, Sunrise, Stillness, Soothing, Restlessness, Rush, Panting, Dance, Tune, Rhythm, Writing on February 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by serni
There was a stirring all around, the soothing restlessness of peace, of the emerging day. Here disappeared the panting rush of the world. No tune to dance to, no rhythm to step to. Silence was music and the dance was stillness.
- Raatkiranii (K.F.S)
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Posted in Life, Photography, Ramblings, Random, tagged guide, Disease, Life, soul, time, Day, Home, Power, Willpower, Strength, Faith, bitter, memory, World, Beliefs, Emotions, Test, Light, Ailment, Illness, Terminal, Break, Perspective, Living, Moment, Blessing, Mortality, Bold, Enlighten, Immortality, Cheated, Angry, Vitality, Breath, Shrine, Sacred, Faithful, Souls, Guiding Light, Chaos, Body, Rationality, Reason, Person, Eyes, See, Hearts, Hearth, Depth, Seen, Felt, Endurance, Care, Salvage, Save on January 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Photograph by .tintin.
Ailments of the body are an odd thing, not in their occurrence but rather in their affect on us and our responses to them. Terminal illnesses in particular seem to have the power to make or break us. Our willpower, our perspectives, and the importance we place on life can be sourly tested [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Life, Photography, Quotations, tagged photograph, flickr, quote, Quotation, Quotations, Change, World, Everyone, Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy on December 20, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Photograph by bambino333
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
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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
