Moving towards higher consciousness..

The possibility of achieving the highest level of actualization exists only if we are surrounded on a regular basis with others moving towards higher consciousness.

In the face of overwhelming challenges all around us, the only thing we can do is make our little corner of the world more safe, welcoming, friendly, kind, caring and loving.

Read full article at:
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationship-skills/2013/09/breaking-the-cycle-of-loneliness/

Don't hold grudges!

"Don’t hold grudges, even if you feel you are being treated badly, be the first to apologize.Don’t let the dunya (life) and little things hold you back, keep reminding yourself of your destination and where you want to get to. 
The heat and the fire of revenge you feel in your heart is the biggest whisper of Satan, don’t ignite the fire further put a stop to it. 
Don’t be a stone, become water, that changes directions when obstacles are put in its way and always reaches its destination."

-Shaykh Muhammad Saqib bin Iqbal al-Shaam

Man fears to confront...

Then again, that was how she was. She

never confronted the death of anything, be it a habit, a

phase, or a marriage, even when the end stood right in

front of her, plain and inevitable.

(Forty Rules of love (Elif Shafak)

That's what we are like manyatimes in our life. We don't confront things that we are sure going to come. Some call it hope but more than hope it is non-acceptance. Hope is when we know that we'll survive the storm, not expecting it not to come!

Freedom to make mistakes..

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― Erich Fromm

“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

Yaad-e-Mazi mein jo aankhon ko saza di jaye!

Yaad-e-Maazi mein jo aankhon ko saza di jaye,

Is se behtar hai ke her baat bhula di jaye.

Jis se thori si bhi umeed ziyada ho kabhi,

Aisi her shama Sar-e-Sham bujha di jaye.

Meinay apnon ke rawaiye se ye mehsoos kiya,

Dil ke aangan mein bhi deewaar utha di jaye.

Meinay yaaron ke bicharnay se yeh seekha "Mohsin",

Apne dushman ko bhi jeenay ki dua di jaye!

Mein Dil se Baatain kerta tha!

Main dil se baatain karta tha,

Dil mujhe se baatain karta tha,

Main uski sunta rehta tha,

Woh meri sunta rehta tha,

Hum dono apni baatain bus Ik doojay hi se kehtay thay,

Or ik doojay ki baaton per hum ghanton hanstay rehtay thay,

Main dil ka dost hi acha tha,

Dil mera dost hi acha tha,

Woh meray dard samajhta tha,

Mein us ka dard samajhta tha,

Phir dil ne mujh se chaal chali,

Woh teri raah pe chal nikla,

Ab mein bhi tanha rehta hoon,

Or dil bhi tanha rehta hai!

Love

Love is what springs up
when you're looking
in the other direction;
what rushes in
when your definitions drop away.
...When you absolutely
don't know anything
whatsoever anymore,
there It is--
painting Itself madly across your life
with sudden strokes
and unexpectedly rash ink.

Today, be the flower

Today, be the flower
that grows from a rock.

Be the silk breeze
that soothes heated hearts.
...
Be the candle flame
that banishes darkness.

Be the fresh stream
that gives fish a home.

Be the stillness
that provokes sweet peace.

Be the smile
that quenches all fear.

These
are the seeds of joy.