Eric

“Regarding faith, my adherence to Islam had not diminished over the years since my conversion, but I had modified it from the intense orthodoxy I had followed at first to a more streamlined version that I felt was more progressive and inclusive. I practiced quietly on my own without the need to proselytize. I had been able to separate my faith in the theology from using it to make a cultural statement about black Americans. My only interest in Islam was spiritual and ethical guidance, not politics. In”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

“Just seventeen years after Benjamin Franklin became America’s first postmaster general, the Post Office Act utterly transformed his modest mail network. He would have been flabbergasted by the speed at which the post would become the federal government’s biggest, most important department and prime the United States to become the world’s most literate, best-informed country within two generations—surely one of the most significant, least appreciated developments in American history. •”
― Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History

“Alexander the Great died a young man having accomplished many feats, having travelled all the way into India, but never having completed the most important journey of all – the inner journey.”
― Simon Haas, The Book of Dharma: Making Enlightened Choices

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi