Aseel

“اليوم دعنا نتفق
لافرقَ عندكَ إنْ بقيتُ أو مضيتْ
لافرق عندك إن ضحكنا هكذا كذباً
وإن وحدي بكيتْ!
فأنا تركتُ أحبتي ولديكَ أحبابٌ وبيتْ..
وأنا هجرتُ مدينتي , وإليكَ يابعضي أتيتْ
وأنا اعتزلتُ الناسَ والدنيا
فما أنفقتَ لي من أجل أن أبقى؟!
وماذا قد جنيتْ؟؟!!
..
وأنا وهبتُكَ مُهجتي جهراً
فهل سراً نويتْ؟؟!!”
― روضة الحاج, عش للقصيد

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic.
No rhetoric, no tremolos,
no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell.
And of course, no theology, no metaphysics.
Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light.

So throw away your baggage and go forward.
There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,
trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.
That’s why you must walk so lightly.
Lightly my darling,
on tiptoes and no luggage,
not even a sponge bag,
completely unencumbered.”
― Aldous Huxley , Island

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
― Anais Nin