Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal… To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The finest souls are those who gulped pain and avoided making others taste it.
~ Nizariat
~✿~ Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, or Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his vinyl player, gramophone, in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood. Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images. March 2017. ~✿~
The mind has two states: restless and serene. When the mind is serene, the reality of God is reflected in it.
~ Lahiri Mahasaya
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