Abba Auwalu

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.”
― Avicenna

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غذای روح بود باده رحیق الحق
که رنگ او کند از دور رنگ گل را دق
به رنگ زنگ زداید ز جان اندوهگین
همای گردد اگر جرعه‌ای بنوشد بق
به طعم، تلخ چوپند پدر و لیک مفید
به پیش مبطل، باطل به نزد دانا، حق
می‌از جهالت جهال شد به شرع حرام
چو مه که از سبب منکران دین شد شق
حلال گشته به فتوای عقل بر دانا
حرام گشته به احکام شرع بر احمق
شراب را چه گنه زان که ابلهی نوشد
زبان به هرزه گشاید، دهد ز دست ورق
حلال بر عقلا و حرام بر جهال
که می‌محک بود وخیرو شر از او مشتق
غلام آن می‌صافم کزو رخ خوبان
به یک دو جرعه برآرد هزار گونه عرق
چو بوعلی می‌ناب ار خوری حکیمان
به حق حق که وجودت شود به حق ملحق
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― Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.”
― C. JoyBell C.