Sherine

“The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain—the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, “unutterably alone.” More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“AN ARTIST’S PRAYER
O Great Creator,
We are gathered together in your name
That we may be of greater service to you
And to our fellows.
We offer ourselves to you as instruments.
We open ourselves to your creativity in our lives.
We surrender to you our old ideas.
We welcome your new and more expansive ideas.
We trust that you will lead us.
We trust that it is safe to follow you.
We know you created us and that creativity
Is your nature and our own.
We ask you to unfold our lives
According to your plan, not our low self-worth.
Help us to believe that it is not too late
And that we are not too small or too flawed
To be healed—
By you and through each other—and made whole.
Help us to love one another,
To nurture each other’s unfolding,
To encourage each other’s growth,
And understand each other’s fears.
Help us to know that we are not alone,
That we are loved and lovable.
Help us to create as an act of worship to you.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“فكنت أحمل لها في حقيبتي كل شعر العالم، ابن الفارض، عمر ابن أبي ربيعة، أبو العتاهية، حافظ إبراهيم، أحمد شوقي، راسين، شيلي، بايرون، وعمر الخيّام طبعاً.
فتنظر إليّ كأنني أهبها الجنة على الأرض، كأنني أفتح لها الباب المُحرَّم.”
― سليم نصيب, كان صرحا من خيال

“كنا رفاق أحلامه وغاراته،لكنه فر وحيدا،أهو العدل حلم فردي؟ألا يوجد حلم جماعي بالمساواة؟هل كان يحبنا،أم يحب نفسه،أم يحب العدل؟يارفاق الموت انهضوا،الشمس لا تشرق من القبور،والصبار غير مستساغ الطعم،والماء آسن،والعظام نخرة،والعناكب موحشة،والديدان شرهة،وشواهد القبور صلبة،وأنت تعدو وحيدا،نقولها لك:يا تأبط شرا،لا أمل،لا أمل!”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, شخصيات حية من الأغاني