Abdalla Elabd
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“Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you.”
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“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“Love is an amusing companion, affable mate, a sovereignty featured by gentle tracks, mysterious approaches, and unjust judgments. Love is the king of bodies, souls, hearts, and their passions, eyes and their looks, minds and their thoughts; all obey love! Love is invisible; it finds its way to the heart secretly.”
― Ibn Zuraiq Al-Baghdadi: A Passenger of Time
― Ibn Zuraiq Al-Baghdadi: A Passenger of Time
“I read bells. Not the sound of bells, no, no, but the feel of bells, the emotion of bells, the bright clanging joy, the hooting-shouting-ringing loudness, the song of the Joined, the togetherness and the sharing of it all.”
― A Song for Lya
― A Song for Lya
“Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven or, to be more precise, that everything governed and moved in heaven came down to Egypt and was transferred there? If truth were told, our land is the temple of the whole world.”
― Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
― Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
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