Kindness

'No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.' -Aesop.

Dose of Nostalgia

It was time for a story.

If You Can't Go To Sleep

If you can't go to sleep
My dear soul
For tonight
What do you think will happen

If you pass your night
And merge it with dawn
For the sake of heart
What do you think will happen

If the entire world
Is covered with the blossoms
You have labored to plant
what do you think will happen

If the elixir of life
That has been hidden in the dark
Fills the desert and towns
What do you think will happen

If because of
Your generosity and love
A few humans find their lives
What do you think will happen

If you pour an entire jar
Filled with joyous wine
On the head of those already drunk
What do you think will happen

Go my friend
Bestow your love
Even on your enemies
If you touch their hearts
What do you think will happen

-Rumi (:

Love; All I Want for Christmas

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
It is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
It does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians: Chapter13

...and a Happy New Year!

It's the night of Christmas.

The time for presents has arrived. For milk and cookies. Time of Christ and the Holy Mother Mary.

It's the time of roasts. Of snowmans. Of BBQ if you're in the Southern side of the Globe.

It's the time of hugs and kisses. Of red and green. Of surprise and gusto.

It's the time of laughter. Of warmth. Of love and forgiveness.


I wish you all a very warm Christmas and an excellent upcoming year. May all your wishes come true.

Please do not forget to smile at a passerby, lend a hand to an elderly, and donate a thoughtful gift to an orphan.

Merry Christmas!

Looking for Rumi's Beloved

I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only 'anqa's habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet's experience of a great divine manifestation only a "two bow-lengths' distance from him" but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.

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