Favorite lines

From favorite authors in Sufism.

It’s Right.

I just love this. It feels right.

Highlighted in yellow

I was going through the draft of my next blog post.
I have highlighted the words that matter in yellow.
Everything else is really added-on.

I love it when

You’re very welcome

I have a colleague that has this small habit which I really like. She always takes time to say “You’re welcome” whenever someone thanks her, be it in person, through emails or via text messages.

Simple. But I notice how warming it feels for me to have received those small messages of “You’re welcome” from her, every single time. So I learned to do it myself, to take time to say “you’re welcome” every time someone thanks me.

In the horizons

I came across this verse in the Qur’an the other day. “We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth… [QS 41:53]”

It was not the first time I came across it. The common interpretation of the verse is that it is an invitation to see signs of God(‘s existence or messages) in the universe (nature, our surrounding) and within our body/mind/heart. Until we can truly know it (through taste).

But this time, it carries a slightly different meaning.

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

hop.hop.hop

What the heck do you think you are you doing, hopping around like mad? You look so annoyingly happy.

hop
…………hop
……………………hop

……………………hop
…………hop
hop

Argh, all bright eyes, bushy tail. You look so joyful, it feels fake. I know you. You’re not supposed to be like that.

What’s the best thing that has ever happened to you?

You asked me.

I looked at you and smiled.*

Hemingway on writing

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Look up!

A recent favorite photo — simply of a tree at the Edinburgh Botanical Garden, UK.