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“I don’t know. I believe wholeheartedly in islam, but sometimes when i go to the mosque for friday sermons, and the imam recites the doa to strengthen the ummah, and keep us away from musuh-musuh islam, kafiruns. I wonder who falls in what category, and is it really our place to even segregate and categorize, or should we wish and doa the best for ( Read more... )

When i think about how the best souls whose kindness grace the holiest of pages will fall to their knees, my heart drops in fear. My mind's eye is effaced with shame and knows my place among the dust; for i am a speck of dust itself. Somehow it feels like the further i travel and the more i open my heart to your love, the more i begin to comprehend ( Read more... )

  As always, as my love grows larger so does my fear. All the time. I could measure the love i have towards someone/something by thinking about losing it. If the thought strikes my heart, if the thought makes me dismissive, i pretty much know (although the latter could just be me taking it for granted). Hegel says that what gives our work meaning ( Read more... )

So extremely disappointed with myself whenever i succumb to anger. I don't have the right to be disappointed with people in the first place.

“In finding yourself you have found God. In reaching to your own center you have reached the center of the whole universe. Now there is no need to go anywhere; you have found the infinite treasure - what Jesus calls the kingdom of God.”

“You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time. You are ( Read more... )

Thank you for everything.

  I was pretty upset throughout the day (as usual, what is new). But as the day waned, i played with Gandalf, laughed at how my parents comforted my crying sister, got a little emotional reading The Aeneid cause a son died just because he wanted to protect a dying father, laughed at a photo of some muslim boy getting banned from a lan shop for ( Read more... )

"You are afraid from the darkness, because you are in the darkness, you are not running to that one who is holding the light. You are never going to find that light. Never. Until you go to that one, and you submit yourself. If you are accepting, you will find safety. "

Sheykh Abd Kerim Effendi