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  • Humility and inner peace go hand in hand. The less compelled you are to try to prove yourself to others, the easier it is to feel peaceful inside.

    (via maryamrshad)

  • Wishful thinking…I wonder what’s so intelligent about observing symptoms of creation and then declaring that to be the source of intelligence and the purpose of life? It’s one thing to maintain a belief system, but entirely different to use it as a soap box from which to dismiss other belief systems. 

    I always wonder how prudent a use of time it is to spend your life seeking purpose and forgetting to live in the process? Perhaps some would argue that the search is in fact living in itself, and perhaps there is truth in that. But given that atheists firmly establish their belief system in science, and given that the foundations of science have recently been shaken to their core with the discovery that the speed of light is in fact not the limit that we thought it was, I wonder what implications that may have on the belief systems that are based on science?

    Seems rather convenient to suggest that theism is flawed because it can’t be proven when in fact atheism is just as theory-based. Big difference is that theism is capable of defining theories of existence that atheism was denying until they could prove scientifically that the theistic theories were actually true to begin with. The fact that those theistic theories were based on broadly accepted divine inspiration will always be conveniently overlooked. But the fact that the speed of light was based on one of the greatest scientists this side of the Ice Age and has now been proven to be incorrect as the basis for the theory of relativity will also be conveniently overlooked.

    But science is progressive, and must therefore be allowed the convenience of breaking its own rules in its search for the truth. It’s all just too convenient for me. Far too convenient to take the moral high ground as an atheist, dismiss the definitive influence that religion has had and continues to have on that same moral code, and then conjure up even more elaborate theories about how morality is independent of religion when a simple study of various cultures will confirm that morality is very definitely based on the religious customs of any community. 

    Reminds me of another post I wrote not too long ago on the subject of Atheism and Theism.

  • lovelygirlblogslikeaboss:

    Can’t you see my whole life has been this way? I’ve been holding my heart in my hand showing it to every passer by, giving love away like it’s a handful of pennies.. 

  • earthlaughs:

       Please reblog this if you know, knew, or are someone who has battled any kind of cancer.

       This song is called October by Callie Moore. Callie and her sisters lost their mother to breast cancer 18 years ago. She was only was only 8. She wrote and posted this song  to YouTube over a year ago.

       Callie writes music and sings. She says that her mothers love and integrity is what drives her to live, love, and make the amazing music that she does. 

       Like it says in the song, cancer is a heart in a stubborn man, and he teaches us something that nobody else can. I believe that what he is trying to teach us, is that, you should never take a precious moment, a person, or just a simple day of living for granted because you never know when it could be your’s or someone else’s last. 

    I rarely reblog this type of post, but this one is different. To me it is anyway. It has more substance than most, and it’s not a guilt trip waiting to happen. 

    (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

  • The believer’s greatest argument is his face. True religion lights up
    the face; false religion fills it with insecurity, rage and suspicion.
    This is perceptible not only to insiders, but to anyone who maintains
    some connection with unsullied primordial human nature in his heart.
    The early conversions to Islam often took place among populations that
    had no access to the language of the Muslims who now lived among them;
    but they were no less profound in consequence. Religion is ultimately
    a matter of personal transformation, and no amount of missionary work
    will persuade people – with the occasional exception of the disturbed
    and the desperate – unless our own transformation is complete enough
    to be able to transform others.

    Tim Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad)

  • In Damascus, everyone knows where the marketplace for clothing is. There are dozens of stores strung together selling virtually the same material and fashions. Not only are the stores together, but when the time for prayer comes, the merchants pray together. They often attend the same study circles, have the same shaykhs, and are best friends.
    It used to be that one person sold enough for the day, he would shut down and go and allow others to get what they need. This is not make-believe or part of a utopian world. It happened. It is hard to believe that there were people like that on the planet. And they exist to this day, but to a lesser extent. They are now old, and their sons have not embraced the beauty of that way of doing business.”

    Purification of The Heart, Hamza Yusuf. (via rootofthree)

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    This is a Tumblr Cloud I generated from my blog posts between Jun 2011 and Oct 2011 containing my top 20 used words.

    Top 5 blogs I reblogged the most:

    (Source: http://tumblrcloud.icodeforlove.com/981657/775236)

  • it’s 03h30 here, and as exhausted as I am, I don’t feel like getting into bed. It’s a different kind of insomnia because I know that the moment I put my head on that pillow, I’ll pass out from exhaustion…but I almost don’t want to.