My good friend Jafrin sent this to me and I had to post it:
“The soul is a temptress and loves to look at beautiful forms and the eye is the guide of the heart. The heart commissions its guide to go and look to see what is there and when the eye informs it of [...]
I have always thought about this and finally I came upon this hadith:
Abû Hurayrah relates that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: “God is good and accepts nothing but what is good. Indeed, God commands the believers with what He commands the Messengers and says: ‘O Messengers! Eat of the things good and pure [...]
Someone once said, “Words only carry the significances we assign to them.”
Beautiful. Perfect.
This small quotes solves practically all conflicts in life. People love to interpret what other people mean when they use words, what we need to do is ASK the person stating the words what they actually mean. In this way we realize that the [...]
This is the most painful battle on earth. It seems that no matter how hard I try to reason with my heart, to tell it to stop hurting and worrying over trivial matters…it continues to resonate with pain. I basically walk around with a random pain in my chest. My mind is perfectly fine and [...]
Today something rare and fortunate happened. There is a lady at my workplace who NEVER smiles. I always smile at her, but she never returns it. I just ignore it, and keep up my usual routine of smiling at all strangers. I can’t help it, sometimes I feel like a smile is glued to my face.
Today [...]
I had an epiphany today and I only have a few minutes to post, so I shall be quick:
When we love somebody, sometimes we test that person with difficult situations to see how much they actually love us. Like a girl might say, “What if I had leukemia/cancer, would you still love me then?” Sometimes [...]
Sometimes you have the most unusual days, and then by the end, you think WOW. My life really is a drama show. God has the most interesting characters and events for us to meet.
One day towards the end of the fall semester, I had one of the most captivating conversations in my life–with an ex-Jail-convict. He was really nice and [...]