#Today's #meditation :
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How would we live, differently, if we accepted our lives and bodies are not our own, but on loan from the Divine?
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Those who speak ill of life
do not realize they only
smear their own names.
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#life #meditation #gratitude #poetry #WritingCommunity
Prayer is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul.
— Emerson
#literature #prayer #song #quote #gratitude
‘Who these days writes aphorisms?
Yahia Lababidi is keeping this art alive today — in times when morality is misunderstood and misappreciated —
Clearly a mystic with direct insight into the nature of reality, he simply manages to inspire.
A striking read that is a beautiful companion for anyone with a reflective nature!’
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The jailer is never free.
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#poetry #WritingCommunity #reading #books #bookstodon
'The way is long only
because you delay to start on it;
one single step
would bring you to Him:
become a slave,
and you will become a king
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Whatever befalls you, misfortune or fortune,
is unalloyed blessing;
the attendant evil
a fleeing shadow.
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No more nonsense! Lose yourself,
and the hell of your heart becomes a heaven.
Lose yourself, and anything can be accomplished.
Your selfishness is an untrained colt
— Sanai
#poetry #spirituality #Islam #faith #art #inspiration #motivation
nostr:npub1cppueu5z5xpp2ruqskuwlth0qtdr7s5mtjrqywruxnq3e0y7gqxq572uya utterly sublime. #MomentofAwe 🙏
nostr:npub1yd0vd0mzxma3rax47t0jy2qscl78h0ft82mv94vx0cddmevjgm8shdejme I agree. Something to aspire to 🤲🏼
"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see... their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”
— Yeats
#peace #meditation
Either receive light from contemporaries
Or from the candles of past visionaries.
— Rumi, The Masnavi
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Your Lord sends in the days of your era special breaths,
so make sure to receive them!
— Prophet Mohammed ﷺ
#light #inspiration
From a book of epigrams:
Optical Biases, by Richard Krause
#bookstodon #meditation #psychology
"When you are born with a strong presentiment of death, life advances toward death in reverse... you die, then you live, suffer, and finally are born.
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Why do the heights require the suppression of appetite?
Why do poets, musicians, mystics and saints use askesis in various ways?
Voluntary hunger is a road to heaven."
—Emil Cioran, Tears & Saints
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Inyun: Buddhist-derived concept that suggests that every meeting between two souls is the product of countless interactions or near-interactions in their past lives.
#fate #relationships #destiny #buddhism #life #mystery
“I live my life in widening circles”
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I will give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
#poetry #spirituality #prayer #inspiration #WritingCommunity
Amazing cactus 🌵
#bloomscrolling #nature #flowers
If, as #Rumi says, the wound is the place where the #Light enters us, then we must keep our wound clean.
#selfcare #life
Signs of spiritual evolution?
That our slighter transgressions torment us, longer.
#spirituality #video #ethics
Thinking of #Colombia 🇨🇴
Here are #photos from a mind-blowing 🤯 #flower #Festival that I attended :
#bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #photography #naturephotography
#photo #culture #travel #memories
Acceptance is not to steal
from each day,
but to receive with open hands
only what is freely offered.
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Gift from writer Sherman Alexie, a signed copy of his fine letterpress #book.
“A Memory of Elephants” is a limited edition of only 500 copies.
This slim volume is a confessional collection of poems that explores mental disorder, regret for things left unsaid to parents, tribal identity, #love and questions to #God.
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Cancel Culture
What happens to a canceled person
what becomes of their uncancelable spirit
If they are an #artist, where do they go
to share their undimmed vision of #beauty
the eternal moonlight illuminating
their enduring dark nights of the #soul
who witnesses their contrition,
redemption or #transformation
How might we pray for Mercy
when we have become wrathful deities?
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#culture #prayer #poetry #media #SocialMedia #life
