Impotence and Anxiety Are For the Inadequate

Impotence and Anxiety Are For the Inadequate

If you want life, don’t cling onto impotence in things for which there are solutions;

If you want ease of mind, don’t become needlessly anxious about things for which there is no solution.

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Sometimes Little Things Do Big Works

Sometimes Little Things Do Big Works

Under some conditions a small point raises its owner to the highest of the high.

Then there are circumstances when a slight movement sends down the doer to the lowest of the low.

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For Some People a Moment Is a Year

For Some People a Moment Is a Year

Some people’s innate capacities blossom in a instant, while others are gradual, unfolding little by little. Human nature contains both of these.

They look to conditions, and change accordingly. Sometimes they develop slowly. Sometimes they are dark like gunpowder, then suddenly explode into luminous fire.

Sometimes one look transforms coal into diamonds. Sometimes a touch transmutes stone into elixir.

A single glance of God’s Messenger instantly transformed an ignorant nomad into an enlightened man of knowledge.

If you want an example, ‘Umar before Islam and ‘Umar after Islam.

Compare the two: a seed, a tree. It instantaneously produced fruit, that look of Muhammad, the Prophetic effulgence.

Of a sudden he changed the coal-like natures of the Arabian people into diamonds; with their morals as black as gunpowder, they all became luminous lights.

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Falsehoods Are Blasphemies

Falsehoods Are Blasphemies

One grain of truth wipes out a million lies. O grain of reality razes a castle of dreams. Honesty is a grand principle, a lustrous jewel.