Nida Usman

“Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake. The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there is the surface of the lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“There is no prize to perfection...only an end to pursuit.”
― Viktor

“Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
― William Ernest Henley, Invictus

“The Now is also central to the teaching of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Sufis have a saying: “The Sufi is the son of time present.” And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: “Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment