Rahma

“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the boundless desire for love -- were the only motives in life?”
― Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi - "life out of balance" - an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“الكعبة ليست غرفة نطوف حولها
عش تاريخها
تخيل الملائكة وهي تبنيها
تخيل الطوفان يُغرقها
تخيل إسماعيل يناول أباه الحجارة ليبنيها من جديد
تخيلهما يحباك قبل أن يعرفاك
«وابعث فيهم رسولاً منهم»
تخيله بأبي هو وأمي حيث الآن أنت تطوف
ينادي فيهم «اذهبوا فأنتم الطلقاء»”
― أدهم شرقاوي, حديث الصباح

“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code