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  • #1
    Thomas L. Friedman
    “No one has expressed what is needed better than Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of the London-based al-Arabiya news channel. One of the best-known and most respected Arab journalists working today, he wrote the following, in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (September 6, 2004), after a series of violent incidents involving Muslim extremist groups from Chechnya to Saudi Arabia to Iraq: "Self-cure starts with self-realization and confession. We should then run after our terrorist sons, in the full knowledge that they are the sour grapes of a deformed culture... The mosque used to be a haven, and the voice of religion used to be that of peace and reconciliation. Religious sermons were warm behests for a moral order and an ethical life. Then came the neo-Muslims. An innocent and benevolent religion, whose verses prohibit the felling of trees in the absence of urgent necessity, that calls murder the most heinous of crimes, that says explicitly that if you kill one person you have killed humanity as a whole, has been turned into a global message of hate and a universal war cry... We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. We cannot redeem our extremist youth, who commit all these heinous crimes, without confronting the Sheikhs who thought it ennobling to reinvent themselves as revolutionary ideologues, sending other people's sons and daughters to certain death, while sending their own children to European and American schools and colleges.”
    Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

  • #2
    Tom Stoppard
    “Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.”
    Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

  • #3
    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.”
    Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

  • #4
    أبو العتاهية
    “لعَمْرُكَ، ما الدّنيا بدارِ بَقَاءِ؛ كَفَاكَ بدارِ المَوْتِ دارَ فَنَاءِ
    فلا تَعشَقِ الدّنْيا، أُخيَّ، فإنّما يُرَى عاشِقُ الدُّنيَا بجُهْدِ بَلاَءِ
    حَلاَوَتُهَا ممزَوجَة ٌ بمرارة ٍ ورَاحتُهَا ممزوجَة ٌ بِعَناءِ
    فَلا تَمشِ يَوْماً في ثِيابِ مَخيلَة ٍ فإنَّكَ من طينٍ خلقتَ ومَاءِ
    لَقَلّ امرُؤٌ تَلقاهُ لله شاكِراً؛ وقلَّ امرؤٌ يرضَى لهُ بقضَاءِ
    وللّهِ نَعْمَاءٌ عَلَينا عَظيمَة ٌ، وللهِ إحسانٌ وفضلُ عطاءِ
    ومَا الدهرُ يوماً واحداً في اختِلاَفِهِ ومَا كُلُّ أيامِ الفتى بسَوَاءِ
    ومَا هُوَ إلاَّ يومُ بؤسٍ وشدة ٍ ويومُ سُرورٍ مرَّة ً ورخاءِ
    وما كلّ ما لم أرْجُ أُحرَمُ نَفْعَهُ؛ وما كلّ ما أرْجوهُ أهلُ رَجاءِ
    أيَا عجبَا للدهرِ لاَ بَلْ لريبِهِ يخرِّمُ رَيْبُ الدَّهْرِ كُلَّ إخَاءِ
    وشَتّتَ رَيبُ الدّهرِ كلَّ جَماعَة ٍ وكَدّرَ رَيبُ الدّهرِ كُلَّ صَفَاءِ
    إذا ما خَليلي حَلّ في بَرْزَخِ البِلى ، فَحَسْبِي بهِ نأْياً وبُعْدَ لِقَاءِ
    أزُورُ قبورَ المترفينَ فَلا أرَى بَهاءً، وكانوا، قَبلُ،أهل بهاءِ
    وكلُّ زَمانٍ واصِلٌ بصَريمَة ٍ، وكلُّ زَمانٍ مُلطَفٌ بجَفَاءِ
    يعِزُّ دفاعُ الموتِ عن كُلِّ حيلة ٍ ويَعْيَا بداءِ المَوْتِ كلُّ دَواءِ
    ونفسُ الفَتَى مسرورَة ٌ بنمائِهَا وللنقْصِ تنْمُو كُلُّ ذاتِ نمَاءِ
    وكم من مُفدًّى ماتَ لم يَرَ أهْلَهُ حَبَوْهُ، ولا جادُوا لهُ بفِداءِ
    أمامَكَ، يا نَوْمانُ، دارُ سَعادَة ٍ يَدومُ البَقَا فيها، ودارُ شَقاءِ
    خُلقتَ لإحدى الغايَتينِ، فلا تنمْ، وكُنْ بينَ خوفٍ منهُمَا ورَجَاءُ
    وفي النّاسِ شرٌّ لوْ بَدا ما تَعاشَرُوا ولكِنْ كَسَاهُ اللهُ ثوبَ غِطَاءِ”
    أبو العتاهية

  • #5
    Erik Pevernagie
    “A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( "Girl in blue" )”
    Erik Pevernagie

  • #6
    Anthony Liccione
    “She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into the day. There was beauty locked in her that unfolded like an umbrella's claw, her true self that desired compassion, trust, protection and the potential to soar. But I missed to late, that what I wasn't looking for, when she left her reasons in the rain.”
    Anthony Liccione

  • #7
    Christophe Galfard
    “When left alone, quantum particles behave as multiple images of themselves (as waves, really), simultaneously moving through all possible paths in space and time. Now, again, why do we not experience this multitude around ourselves? Is it because we are probing things around us all the time? Why do all experiments that involve, say, the position of a particle make the particle suddenly be somewhere rather than everywhere? No one knows. Before you probe it, a particle is a wave of possibilities. After you've probed it, it is somewhere, and subsequently it is somewhere for ever, rather than everywhere again. Strange, that. Nothing, within the laws of quantum physics, allows for such a collapse to happen. It is an experimental mystery and a theoretical one. Quantum physics stipulates that whenever something is there, it can transform into something else, of course, but it cannot disappear. And since quantum physics allows for multiple possibilities simultaneously, these possibilities should then keep existing, even after a measurement is made. But they don't. Every possibility but one vanishes. We do not see any of the others around us. We live in a classical world, where everything is based on quantum laws but nothing resembles the quantum world.”
    Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

  • #8
    “Interlaken

    Get a running start. Catch
    a good wind, he said: Be a good

    bird. I thought him German
    as his hand did the wave––tumult

    of syllables, the ocean. A gust carried us
    from the top of a ridge to where land

    helixes hug vague bodies
    of water, pebbled pastures

    skimming treelines across the range
    littered with wildflowers. Winds lilted:

    It’s not your day to go, as I watched
    clouds blush vermillion, flying

    in tandem as a crow does over
    reservoirs and glacial gorges. That high

    up, I thought maybe we could fall
    in love, full of pomp and spectacle,

    but he was a stranger, and to him, I was
    strange; possibly ugly. Everyone

    peddles timing––the random alchemy
    of abutting molecules––though

    I’ve grown weary of waiting. Stillness
    is the danger. So I spread out

    my arms, carved ciphers into ether
    while a choir could be heard along

    the nave where winding trails scissor
    the basin. Spiraling downward,

    I mouthed a new prayer, knelt in air
    for deliverance, morphing into needle

    of a compass, unbeholden to a place
    inhospitable: the mind. The mind bent

    on forgetting: I was blown wide open.”
    Su Hwang

  • #9
    George Santayana
    “To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
    George Santayana

  • #10
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.”
    Jordan B. Peterson

  • #11
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
    Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • #12
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.”
    Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • #13
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.”
    Jordan B. Peterson

  • #14
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better—so they don’t go looking for it. Or, perhaps, they don’t want the trouble of better. Freud called this a “repetition compulsion.” He thought of it as an unconscious drive to repeat the horrors of the past—sometimes, perhaps, to formulate those horrors more precisely, sometimes to attempt more active mastery and sometimes, perhaps, because no alternatives beckon. People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it. It’s partly fate. It’s partly inability. It’s partly … unwillingness to learn? Refusal to learn? Motivated refusal to learn?”
    Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • #15
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.”
    Jordan B. Peterson

  • #16
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do, but are avoiding.”
    Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

  • #17
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit interpretation. We act, even instruct, and yet do not understand. How can we do what we cannot explain?”
    Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

  • #18
    Jordan B. Peterson
    “To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you’re so engrossed in what you’re doing you don’t notice—it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos.”
    Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • #19
    Tony Hillerman
    “From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
    Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

  • #20
    “THE WEATHER OF LOVE


    Love
    Has a way of wilting
    Or blossoming
    At the strangest,
    Most unpredictable hour.
    This is how love is,
    An uncontrollable beast
    In the form of a flower.
    The sun does not always shine on it.
    Nor does the rain always pour on it
    Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
    Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
    And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
    Water it.
    Give it plenty of sunlight.
    Nurture it,
    And the flower of love will
    Outlive you.
    Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
    And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
    This is how love is,
    Perfection is a delusional vision.
    So love the person who loves you
    Unconditionally,
    And abandon the one
    Who only loves you
    Under favorable
    Conditions.”
    Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

  • #21
    Mike  Norton
    “Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
    Mike Norton, White Mountain

  • #22
    محمد عفيفي
    “لا بد أن أجلس ذات يوم لكي أكتب بحثاً عن العوامل السيكوطقسية الكامنة وراء إنتشار الإنجليز في الأرض وتكوينهم للإمبراطورية.
    هم كانوا يريدون الخلاص بأية طريقة من جو بلادهم المنحط، ولعلهم ما كانوا يطلقون رصاصة واحدة لو وافق أصحاب القارات المشمسة على منحهم تأشيرة دخول !”
    محمد عفيفي, سكة سفر

  • #23
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Peace is the center of the atom, the core of quiet within the storm. It is not a cessation . . .”
    Madeline L'engle

  • #24
    Alberto Caeiro
    “And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —
    In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”
    Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

  • #25
    Jeffrey Fry
    “Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.”
    Jeffrey Fry

  • #26
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #27
    Scott Hastie
    “Sublime moments refracted,
    Even if only for seconds,
    Caught forever in your soul.”
    Scott Hastie

  • #28
    Jean-François Lyotard
    “...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too
    violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.”
    Jean-François Lyotard, Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (Wellek Library Lectures

  • #29
    “Observing Subjectively; Objecting subjection's intimately.
    The Sublime from the relaxed state of awe, hatches the state of beauty which flows through.

    As Above So Below,
    As Within So Without,
    The Monad of Experience.”
    Kevin John Kull

  • #30
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet



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