Ibrahim

“It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.”
― Emil Cioran

“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.” This advice comes from Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, a Dominican friar and professor of moral philosophy, who during the early part of the twentieth century penned a slim but influential volume titled The Intellectual Life. Sertillanges wrote the book as a guide to “the development and deepening of the mind” for those called to make a living in the world of ideas. Throughout The Intellectual Life, Sertillanges recognizes the necessity of mastering complicated material and helps prepare the reader for this challenge.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered , irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“ًوسرتُ قصدك لا كالمشتهي بلدا
لكن كمن يتشهَّى وجهَ من عشِقا
و ها أنا و يدي جلدٌ و سالفَتي
ثلج و وجهي عظمٌ كاد أوعرقا
ًوأنتِ لم تبرَحي في النفسِ عالقَة
دَمي و لَحمي و الأنفاسَ و الرَّمقا
دمشق صبراً على البلوى فكم صهرت
سبائك الذهب الغالي فما احترقا
وعند أعوادك الخضراء بهجتها
كالسنديانة مهما تسَّاقطت ورقا”
― محمد مهدي الجواهري, اجمل اشعار محمد مهدي الجواهري