Yomna EL-Khateeb

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“عجبت منك ومني
يا منية المتمني
أدنيتني منك حتى
ظننت أنك أني
وغبت في الوجد حتى
أفنيتني بك عني
يا نعمتي في حياتي
وراحتي بعد دفني
ما لي بغيرك أنس
من حيث خوفي وأمني
يا من رياض معانيه
قد حوت كل فني
وإن تمنيت شيئاً
فأنت كل التمني”
― الحلاج

“Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself. That is why the irrational and spontaneous are so precious to the student of spirituality. The 'irrational' circumnavigates the rational mind and by that allows the unconscious to manifest. The spontaneous and flexible person, who is not afraid of non-rational impulses, unorthodox behaviors, poetry, and dreams, in other words, the totality of being, acquires a unitive nature.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own “body music.” T”
― Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day