Diana > Diana's Quotes

“بكوب الشراب المرصع باللازورد.... انتظرها
على بركة الماء حول المساء وعطر الكولونيا.... انتظرها
بصبر الحصان المعدّ لمنحدرات الجبال.... انتظرها
بذوق الأمير البديع الرفيع..... انتظرها
بسبع وسائد محشوة بالسحاب..... انتظرها
بنار البخور النسائي ملئ المكان.... انتظرها
برائحة الصندل الذكرية حول ظهور الخيول..... انتظرها
ولا تتعجل،فإن أقبلت بعد موعدها فانتظرها
وان أقبلت قبل موعدها فانتظرها
وان أقبلت عند موعدها فانتظرها
ولا تُجفِل الطير فوق جدائلها وانتظرها
لتجلس مرتاحة كالحديقة في أوج زينتها.... وانتظرها
لكي تتنفس هذا الهواء الغريب على قلبها.... وانتظرها
لترفع عن ساقها ثوبها غيمة غيمة.....و انتظرها
وخذها إلى شرفة لترى قمرا غارقا في الحليب وانتظرها
وقدم لها الماء قبل النبيذ ولا تتطلع إلى توأمي حجل نائمين على صدرها وانتظرها
ومُس على مهل يدها عندما تضع الكأس فوق الرخام كأنك تحمل عنها الندى وانتظرها
تحدث إليها كما يتحدث نايٌ إلى وترٍ خائف في الكمان كأنكما شاهدان على ما يُعِد غد لكما وانتظرها
إلى أن يقول لك الليل لم يبقى غيركما في الوجود، فخذها إلى موتك المشتهى وانتظرها”
― محمود درويش

“ليس وطني دائماً على حق. ولكنني لا استطيع ان امارس حقاً حقيقياً الا في وطني .”
― محمود درويش

“بالدم نكتب لفلسطين
We write with the blood for Palestine”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. Every project has matured me in a different way. I am”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear

“Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“Our problem is that we’re sure we have to do something to be free. Strangely enough, the only thing between us and a life without limits is this mistaken idea.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Begin with the higher fact that you are not here on earth to live up to anyone’s expectations—including your own. There is something much higher for you to be in this life than to spend your days doing what only strains and drains you. Your True Self knows that there is only one supreme command: you need never answer any demand that causes you pain or that asks you to sacrifice your integrity.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“Living under the defeatist directions of the false self, we wrongly assume that the only way to reach real independence, real safety, is to look to someone else to take us there. It isn’t in another’s power to do for you what you must do for yourself. It never has been.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“Secret Self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“It is the common man who measures himself by the things that pass through his life, for it is only the common man who judges his own value according to what this life accidentally awards or denies. Your birthright is that of a king, but today you have acted quite common.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“My son, a true king is never concerned with what his subjects bring him, whether bags of silver or bags of straw, because he knows he possesses the entire kingdom. Look beyond this stage: everything is yours; it always has been.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“Secret Self is your royal nature. Like the kingly condition that it is, it knows about you what you have yet to learn about yourself. Let it reveal to you its secret kingdom. It belongs to you. You receive a portion of this kingdom each time you refuse to be captured by the common and choose instead in favor of the celestial. The stars are your birthright. We must look beyond the sparrow to the skies through which it wings.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“There is one last thing I would wish for you to know, and to know this truth without any doubt. It will save you, literally, from endless years of futile search and struggle. And it is certain that you will come to know this rescuing power as long as you choose it before all else. Here it is: You have the right to live without being compromised by any negative state.”
― Guy Finley, The Secret of Letting Go

“What it means is that, in the long run, external events have minimal impact on your level of happiness.”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings

“The ego tends to equate ‘having’ with ‘being,’ which is why the ego likes to identify with objects. The ego lives through comparison. Your ego likes to compare itself with other egos. The ego is never satisfied. Your ego always wants more. More fame, more stuff, more recognition, and so on.”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings

“Breathwalk: Breathing Your Way to a Revitalized Body, Mind and Spirit, Gurucharan Singh Khalsa and Yogi Bahjan mentioned the following benefits from slow breathing: Eight breathing cycles per minute: Relief from stress and increased awareness. Four breathing cycles per minute: Intense feelings of awareness, increased visual clarity, heightens bodily sensitivity. One breathing cycle per minute: Optimized cooperation between brain hemispheres, dramatic calming of anxiety, fear, and worry. Rapid”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings

“Here is a formula to explain how emotions form: Interpretation + identification + repetition = strong emotion”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings

“Both Ar-Rahim and Ar-Rahman originate from the Arabic word rahm meaning “womb.” This implies that we can only experience the truth of God’s message from the all-embracing womb of His mercy, love, compassion, and grace.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“Both Ar-Rahim and Ar-Rahman originate from the Arabic word rahm meaning “womb.” This implies that we can only experience the truth of God’s message from the all-embracing womb of His mercy, love, compassion, and grace. Ar-Rahman is seen as the mother of all the divine names, for it is through the all-encompassing womb of God’s Rahman that the universe was manifested into being.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“Jewish mystics metaphorically describe God’s justice as scolding hot water that, if poured on its own into a clay vessel, would break it. God’s mercy is described as freezing cold water; if poured on its own into a clay vessel, it would also break it. But if you pour them together, a neutralizing balance is created, preventing the vessel from breaking.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
WERNER HEISENBERG, PIONEER OF QUANTUM PHYSICS”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“The qualities of Allah can be generally categorized as either a Jamal or Jalal quality. Jamal, or Allah’s qualities of beauty, most often correspond to the ease that comes from His blessings. Jalal, or Allah’s qualities of majesty, relate to the difficulty and pain we experience as Allah purifies and polishes the mirror of our hearts. Although many people struggle with the Jalal faces of God, they are necessary on the path of spiritual progress. Just”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“Lean into the divinity that is hidden within everything. Break every wall of known knowledge; do not seek to know, seek to be in awe of the infinite nature of God. This is where you can experience your Lord; this is where you can be most aware that you will never know Allah as He truly is, and yet every moment of every day it is His breath that is mysteriously creating the life inside of you.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“When we connect with our breath, we are mysteriously connecting with the divine spirit that God blew into us. The following practice is a simple but profound way of bringing God-consciousness to your breath:”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“The God who made the stars, the seas, the mountains and its peaks, the universe and its galaxies felt this world would be incomplete without you and without me. Do you see how you are a puzzle piece in the whole—how without you here, there would be a hole? Your body is not just a clay tent that you live in, it’s a piece of the universe you have been given. You are not a small star, you are a reflection of the entire cosmos. Can you hear the big bang in your heart? Eighty times a minute God knocks on the doors of your chest, to remind you that He has never left, and that He is closer to you than the jugular vein in your neck (50:16). Every moment is divinely blessed, for this very moment God is blowing the breath of life through eight billion different human chests. You are not just star dust and dirt, you are a reflection of God’s beauty on Earth. You are not this mortal body that death will one day take. You are an everlasting spirit held in the mortal embrace of clay. You are not a human being meant to be spiritual, you are a spiritual being living this human being miracle.”
ARU BARZAK, POET”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam