عُهُود عبْدالرَحمَن

“I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can’t think about them. I live with trees. There are creatures under our feet, creatures that live over our heads, but trees live quite convincingly in the same filament of air we inhabit, and in addition, they extend impressively in both directions, up and down, shearing rock and fanning air, doing their real business just out of reach.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“كأنَّ الاحتفاء بالذات لا يتمُّ إلا بالعزلة. كأنَّ الاحتفاء بالحياة لا يكون إلا بالصمت.
ألا يمكن الواحد أن يحتفي بذاته مع الآخرين؟ إنه احتفاء فرديّ، بلا شريك، هذا الذي تقف فيه الذات أمام نفسها وتغنّي. تختلي بروعتها، بخوائها، وتنتشي. يخرج من صمتها النشيد الجميل النادر، البدئيّ، السريّ، النقيّ. النشيد الذي لا يقول شيئًا، لا تراوغه الكلمات، لا يحكي ولا يُسمع.
الذات تحتفي بغيابها عن الآخر. الذات تحتفي بالغياب.”
― وديع سعادة, غبار

“The biggest mistake we make is that we build our homes in other people. We build those homes and we decorate them with the love and care and respect that makes us feel safe at the end of the day. We invest in other people, and we evaluate our self-worth based on how much those homes welcome us. But what many don’t realize is that when you build your home in other people, you give them the power to make you homeless. When those people walk away, those homes walk away with them, and all of a sudden, we feel empty because everything that we had within us, we put into them. We trusted someone else with pieces of us. The emptiness we feel doesn’t mean we have nothing to give, or that we have nothing within us. It’s just that we built our home in the wrong place.”
― Najwa Zebian, Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul

“في أذني اليمنى صوت الاذان يرتفع،في اذني اليسرى قرع اجراس الكنيسة.في انفي رائحة بخور المعابد البوذية تستقر،انصرفت عن الاصوات والرائحة،والتفتُّ الى نبضات قلبي المطمئنة،فعرفت ان الله..هنا”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو