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— Letters on Love, Rainer Maria Rilke

[text ID: I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation ....]

thequraanfm

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يَا مُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِي عَلَى دِينِكَ

“O Turner of the hearts, affirm my heart upon Your religion.”

اللّٰهُمَّ أَصْلِحْ قَلْبِي وَعَمَلِي

“O Allāh rectify my heart and my action”

اللهُمَّ طَهِّرْ قَلْبِي مِنْ كُلِّ سُوْءٍ

“O Allāh, purify my heart from every evil.”

mournfulroses

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

sheiikhhh

Peace be upon you for what you patiently endured.

deentalks

لا تجعل هماً واحدًا ينسيك ألفاً من النعم.

Do not let one worry make you forget a thousand blessings.

peach-22

˹And it will be said,˺ “Read your record. You ˹alone˺ are sufficient this Day to take account of yourself.”

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rose1water

لَقَدۡ جَاۤءَكُمۡ رَسُولࣱ مِّنۡ أَنفُسِكُمۡ عَزِیزٌ عَلَیۡهِ مَا عَنِتُّمۡ حَرِیصٌ عَلَیۡكُم بِٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِینَ رَءُوفࣱ رَّحِیمࣱ

“Indeed, there has come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Heavily weighs upon him your suffering; deeply is he concerned for your well-being. He is full of compassion towards the believers.” (9:128)

Whoever perceives the Majesty and Glory of the Lord, recognising His sacred Station, giving Him His due awe and reverence, is greatly tormented by the sins of humanity and their offences against the Lord’s Sanctity. Furthermore, such an individual will have an overwhelming love and compassion for the creation of God, insofar as they are all the beloved children of God, and is thus tormented by their suffering and wretched conditions. And of course, the most beloved of God, Mohammad ﷺ, was the most perfect in all these stations. Hence, his ﷺ torment and suffering on behalf of all of humanity was so immense, so beyond imagination, that God Himself would comfort him. In a very real and true way, he felt other people's pain more than his own, and this heartache was for him, unbearable.

— Imam Khomeinī, Forty Hadith (al-Arba'ūn Hadīthān)

feral-ballad

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]

septemberkisses

There really is such a softness in knowing that you look up at some of the same stars as people who lived 5000 years ago did.

michaelnordeman

January Moon. Värmland, Sweden (January 27, 2024).

philosophybits

“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”

— John Dewey, How We Think