Archive for November, 2011

November 12, 2011

عز الورود – نزار قباني

عز الورود.. وطال فيك أوام ……..وأرقت وحدي..والأنام نيام

ورد الجميع ومن سناك تزودوا ……..وطردت عن نبع السنى وأقاموا

ومنعت حتى أن أحوم..ولم أكد ……..وتقطعت نفسي عليك ..وحاموا

قصدوك وامتدحوا ودوني اغلقت ……..أبواب مدحك..فالحروف عقام

November 10, 2011

The Story of the Pencil

A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point, he asked:
Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?

His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson:
I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the pencil I’m using.
I hope you will be like this pencil when you grow up

Intrigued, the boy looked at the pencil. It didn’t seem very special.
But it’s like any other pencil I’ve ever seen!

That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world.

First quality: 

November 8, 2011

Suffering / Love

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself (free and untrammeled) guiding us with its force and driving us on…

 

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