Bashayer Noury (Bash)

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. —BISHOP DESMOND TUTU”
― Peter Attia MD, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

“The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, and angel
Or even pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
My mind has ever known.”
― Hafez

“And he began: “What destiny or chance brings you down here before your dying day, and who points out the road by which you advance?”

I said: “In the pleasant life I lost my way before the fullness of my age had come. It was in a valley that I went astray.

Yesterday morning I was fleeing from that place when I turned back, and he came to me. And now along this path he leads me home.”

“Follow your star and you will certainly come to a glorious harbor, if it is true that in the sweet life I had power to see,”

— from Canto XV”
― Dante Alighieri

“I got off the train
And said good-bye to the man I’d met.
We’d been together for eighteen hours
And had a pleasant conversation,
Fellowship in the journey,
And I was sorry to get off, sorry to leave
This chance friend whose name I never learned.
I felt my eyes water with tears . . .
Every farewell is a death.
Yes, every farewell is a death.
In the train that we call life
We are all chance events in one another’s lives,
And we all feel sorry when it’s time to get off.

All that is human moves me, because I’m a man.
All that is human moves me not because I have an affinity
With human ideas or human doctrines
But because of my infinite fellowship with humanity itself.

The maid who hated to go,
Crying with nostalgia
For the house where she’d been mistreated . . .

All of this, inside my heart, is death and the world’s sadness.
All of this lives, because it dies, inside my heart.

And my heart is a little larger than the entire universe.”
― Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems