Breathe

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

[thinkofitasablessing]

[naderdawah]

اللّهُـمَّ إِنِّـي أسْـأَلُـكَ العَـفْوَ وَالعـافِـيةَ في الدُّنْـيا وَالآخِـرَة ، اللّهُـمَّ إِنِّـي أسْـأَلُـكَ العَـفْوَ وَالعـافِـيةَ في ديني وَدُنْـيايَ وَأهْـلي وَمالـي ، اللّهُـمَّ اسْتُـرْ عـوْراتي وَآمِـنْ رَوْعاتـي ، اللّهُـمَّ احْفَظْـني مِن بَـينِ يَدَيَّ وَمِن خَلْفـي وَعَن يَمـيني وَعَن شِمـالي ، وَمِن فَوْقـي ، وَأَعـوذُ بِعَظَمَـتِكَ أَن أُغْـتالَ مِن تَحْتـي

O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness and Your protection in this world and the next. O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness and Your protection in my religion, in my worldly affairs, in my family and in my wealth. O Allah, conceal my secrets and preserve me from anguish. O Allah, guard me from what is in front of me and behind me, from my left, and from my right, and from above me. I seek refuge in Your Greatness from being struck down from beneath me.

[firstfullmoon]

Eileen Myles, from “Smile,” in I Must Be Living Twice [ID in alt text]

[hislovebird-deactivated20240414]

Fly me to the moon

[llovelymoonn]

on love as conversation

alice oseman radio silence (via @liriostigre) \ bell hooks

kofi

[anqelhood]

please be nice to all animals, even the ones you don’t find cute, they have feelings too

[fxlthyangxl-deactivated20240122]

unfortunately i want to make purchases :(

[lazyyogi]

To be gentle is a magnificent practice.

Gentleness is not weak, it is very strong. When you hold an infant, you must be gentle but you must also be firm. You cannot be weak or you will drop and harm the baby.

Gentleness is focused. When we are absent-minded or inattentive, we can be hurtful and damaging. It takes presence and awareness to be gentle.

At the same time, gentleness allows us to be relaxed and humorous, authentic without tension and contrivance.

Practice your gentleness.

Be gentle towards yourself. Be gentle towards nature. Be gentle towards other people.

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return

[coldbrewnette]

I blog for the girls who cry on their birthdays and lose a little bit of themselves during the summer months

[machineryangel]

a very short poem for august (s.r.m.)

[iftiinliights]

how does the weeping willow bark grow when it's back starts to fold and the rain pours to open wounds  but also to fill holes left from the travellers that come and go between homes that sometimes welcome us with open arms while others close blinds to say figure it out on your own

[iftiinliights]

I know i’m not perfect I know i’m real shy  wish I could hold your hand  instead, I stand at the back of the line  and when I look at you and see any pain in your eyes wish I could put it on my back  I swear, for you i’d bear it for miles

daw // feelings

[cantcatchmeee]

[tinydinosaurperfection-deactiva]

"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."

-Lisa Kleypas

[leafbyleaff-deactivated20220719]

When asked about Khadijah radi’Allaahu ‘anha, the Prophet sallalahu ‘aaleyhi wa sallam responded:

انها كانت وكانت She was, she just was .

[htvpgenny]

She said…

“When you miss me, remember, when you had me, I wasn’t enough.”