umi and love

“But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me. We are one.”

– Michael Jackson

“For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?”

– Kahlil Gibran

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

– Kahlil Gibran

Eid Mubarak 🌙

Homecoming

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”

– Miles Davis

“I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.”

– Malcolm X

“Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change— Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is God’s self portrait.”

– Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.”

– Vachel Lindsay

“I am happy even before I have a reason.
I am full of Light even before the sky
can greet the sun or the moon.

Dear companions,
We have been in love with God
For so very, very long.”

– Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy

“Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”

– Katherine Anne Porter