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when - in any second of your existence has God given up on you - for you to so easily give up on Him?

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“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,

you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

You must wake up with sorrow.

You must speak to it till your voice

catches the thread of all sorrows

and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,

only kindness that ties your shoes

and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,

only kindness that raises its head

from the crowd of the world to say

It is I you have been looking for,

and then goes with you everywhere

like a shadow or a friend.”

— Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye (1952)

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why is it that we only recognize blessings when in retrospect?

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“Know, my beloved, that the love is eternal between Allah and His creation and the electric circuitry of His love flows through everything. If not for this, nothing would move that moves; nothing would live that lives. Every planet in its orbit and every cell in its course is a witness to the love of Allah and a sign of His wisdom.

Keep this love inside you and love with it all the time, because the moment you lose it, you lose yourself; you lose Him.”

— Secrets of Divine Love: A Helwa

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“My Lord! Cause me to enter whatever I may do sincerely and cause me to leave it sincerely and grant me supporting authority from Your presence”

— The Holy Qur’an [17-80]

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“The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning. You heard something and you had to pay attention.”

— The Midnight Library: Matt Haig

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“A person was like a city. You couldn’t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don’t like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”

The Midnight Library: Matt Haig

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“The Four Agreements”

— Don Miguel Ruiz

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be impeccable with your word

don’t take things personally

don’t make assumptions

do your best

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“be still like a mountain

and flow like a great river”

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“We shall show them Our signs in the horizons and in their souls til it is clear to them that He is the Real.”

- The Holy Quran (41:53)

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1095 beautiful days 🤍

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not waving but drowning

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‘leave no trace and give no reason why’

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my soul transcends time and space to you, ya Husayn.

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