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“إن عبادة الجسد، وعبادة المادة، والتمرد على الأساس الإلهى فى الحياة الإنسانية عوج لا يتمخض إلا عن الشر والبلاء.
وآفة الحضارة المادية أنها سخرت العقول للشهوات، وأخرست نداء الروح وأطلقت نداء الطين، وجحدت أن الإنسان نفخة من روح الله، ورأت أنه ـ كلا وجزءا ـ نشأ من الأرض فلا يجوز أن يرفع رأسه إلى أعلى يذكر الله ولى نعمته، وسر عظمته.
ونحن نؤكد أن شرف الإنسانية أولا وآخرا فى صلتها بالله، واستمدادها منه، وتقيدها بشرائعه ووصاياه، والحرية الحقيقية ليست فى حق الإنسان أن يتدنس إذا شاء ويرتفع إذا شاء بل الحرية أن يخضع لقيود الكمال وأن يتصرف داخل نطاقها وحده، (وما كان لمؤمن ولا مؤمنة إذا قضى الله ورسوله أمرا أن يكون لهم الخيرة من أمرهم ومن يعص الله ورسوله فقد ضل ضلالا مبينا).
وقال عليه الصلاة والسلام : "لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يكون هواه تبعا لما جئت به ".
ما هى الحرية التى هفت إليها الشعوب، وتنادى بها كبار القلوب؟ إنها حق البشر فى تأمين الوسائل التى يحيون بها حياة زكية نقية، وليست حق امرئ ما فى أن ينسلخ عن طبيعته، أو يتمرد على فطرته.
إن الحرية ليست حق الإنسان أن يتحول حيوانا إذا شاء، أو يجحد نسبه الروحى إلى رب العالمين، أو يقترف من الأعمال ما يوهى صلته بالسماء ويقوى صلته بالتراب، فإن الحرية بهذا المعنى لا تعدو قلب الحقائق، وإبعاد الأمور عن مجراها العتيد. بل الواقع أنك لن تجد أعبد ولا أخنع من رجل يدعى أنه حر، فإذا فتشت فى نفسه وجدته ذليلا لشهواته كلها، ربما كان عبد بطنه أو فرجه، وربما كان عبدا لمظاهر يرائى بها الناس، أو لمراسم يظنها مناط وجاهة، فإذا فقد بعض هذه الرغائب رأيته أتفه شىء ولو كان يلى أكبر المناصب، بل لو كان ملكا تدين له الرقاب.”
― محمد الغزالي, الجانب العاطفي من الإسلام

“there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

“Didn't I tell you, Don’t run away from me! Didn't I tell you, In this empty fantasy, Even if for centuries, you wander angrily You’ll never find another true companion like me.”
― Rumi

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

“Lord, give us weak eyes for things of little worth, and eyes clear-sighted in all of your truth.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch