Shrouk

“وَرِزْقُكَ لَيْسَ يُنْقِصُهُ التَأَنِّي
وليسَ يزيدُ في الرزقِ العناءُ”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي, ديوان الإمام الشافعي

“Whether we realize it or not, it is our woundedness, or how we cope with it, that dictates much of our behavior, shapes our social habits, and informs our ways of thinking about the world.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“I remember being surprised to hear this distinguished old Harvard professor confess how comforted he was to feel his wife’s bum against him as he fell asleep at night. By disclosing such simple human needs in himself he helped us recognize how basic they were to our lives. Failure to attend to them results in a stunted existence, no matter how lofty our thoughts and worldly accomplishments. Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions. Our”
― Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“ما كنت كاتمه من عدوك فلا تظهر عليه صديقك.”
― ابن قتيبة الدينوري, السلطان