If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.
(Ibn Ata'llah)

"Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
Be quick and spare no effort of your wings."
~Jalaluddin Rumi~

"One does not walk into the forest and accuse the trees of being off-center,
Nor do they visit the shore and call the waves imperfect.
So why do we look at ourselves this way?"

"Thunder makes a loud noise but it's the quiet sky that lasts."

"Only God can move mountains,
but faith and prayer can move God"

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"If you work on your mind with your mind how can you avoid an immense confusion?"
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