Of Silence..

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean... 

Often secrets are not revealed in words..  they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people...

-Echo

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hamza ..

Faces & Eyes..

You think you know someone by looking at his face ..

but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes... 

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hamza ..

Caring ..

There's no fear in a shallow heart 
because the shallow heart is faint and doesn't fall apart, 

But feeling hearts that truly care 
are fragile to the flow of air..

- .. 

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hamza ..

Sloppy Life ..

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures.. have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.. 

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing.. not curing.. not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness... 

that is a friend who cares...

Such friends like our thoughts and our vision all were once strangers... composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within us ... 

Somehow at a particular time.. they came from the distance toward our life... Their arrival seemed accidental and contingent... 

but now our life is unimaginable without them. . Losing them is like losing our own self.. 

-and then..

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hamza ..

Lively Indeed ..

"What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?"

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best-" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. 

And then he thought that being with Christopher Robin was a very good thing to do, and having Piglet near was a very friendly thing to have; and so, when he had thought it all out, he said, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing and Dolls smiling."


-excerpt: Winnie the Pooh :)

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hamza ..

Perseverance ..

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His
letting us have our way in the end...
but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until
we are able to honestly pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy
will be done...

I can wait for a lifetime .. or even more .. without food, without
water .. and still won't feel ... because this waiting is better than
the accomplishment ... It makes me remember Him even more .. and more
...

Lets pray for the well being of every soul .. every kind of life ..
and pray for forgiveness and mercy ...

-food & fasting

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hamza ..

Understanding Silence ..

Growing up means learning what life is..
When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria,
plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait
for them to happen to you and then life will work..
But life isn't like that, for anybody.. You can't live in a criteria,
you have to live your life.. You can't wait for your plans to
materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they
will.. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to
you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it.. Always
take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing
up takes that even one step further.. growing up means that you have
to hold on to what you have, when you have it.. because what you have
is what's yours.. and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your
head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you...
those are illusions ..

Yet, there's a second aspect to this .. You can go anywhere you want
to go and do anything you want to do .. buy all the things that you
want to buy.. meet all the kinds of people that you want to meet..
and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all
these things but aren't deeply attached to the things you love, the
things you care about all the time.. you have still not begun to live
..

-Sweetness & Life


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hamza ..

Sigh & A Relief ..

A single feeling of satisfaction that they're safe, is like a drop of
oil on a patch of dry skin - seeping,
spreading, and affecting more than the
original need... Soothing every bruise of worry with it ..
-Relieved


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hamza ..