Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers. Or you can grow weeds. Think positive, Think different. Don’t waste your precious energy on negative thoughts. By Shiraz Khaki Thinking positive can work miracles. You may have been told to “guard your thoughts”, but felt the advice to be pointless.…
Peace for the sake of social justice is not a practicable formula. The only workable formula is peace for the sake of normalcy By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan We often talk of peace in the context of war. But this is a very narrow and restricted notion of peace. Peace is deeply linked with the entirety…
By Swami Ramdas If pleasure be joy, let pain be also joy. If getting be joy, let giving be also joy. If action be joy, let inaction be also joy. If thinking be joy, let non-thinking be also joy. If talking be joy, let silence be also joy. If sleeping be joy, let waking be…
In its pure form, prayer is the divine breath of those whom the world tries to suffocate with terror. By Henri Nouwen The first thing we are called to do when you think of others as our enemies is to pray for them. This is certainly not easy. It requires discipline to allow those who…
There is a 1-minute daily activity that will increase your joy. This activity is: keeping a “Blessings Journal”. By Sheima Salam Sumer “”¦But if you count the favors of Allah, never will you be able to number them”¦” (Quran 14:34) There is a 1-minute daily activity that will increase your joy . This activity is:…
Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) said: “If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, God will ease the way to paradise for him. The angels will lower their wings in their great pleasure with one who seeks knowledge. The inhabitants of the heavens and the Earth and (even) the fish in the deep waters will…
Do not be rude in speech (3:159) Restrain anger (3:134) Be good to others (4:36) Do not be arrogant (7:13) Forgive others for their mistakes (7:199) Speak to people mildly (20:44) Lower your voice (31:19) Do not ridicule others (49:11) Be dutiful to parents (17:23) Do not say a word of disrespect to parents (17:23)…
Lebanese-American poet and artist, Kahlil Gibran, was born 133 years ago. Much of his work in both Arabic and English is infused with a deep sense of spirituality. In addition to his family’s Maronite Catholic faith, his views on God were influenced by Sufi mysticism and other religious traditions. He became convinced of the “fundamental…
No man can be regarded as truly fulfilled unless he is able to rise from the, doubts and difficulties of intellect and rises to a higher state of consciousness. By S. Radhakrishnan Religion, or a search for truth, is a spiritual necessity. When we look at the cosmic process, we find things succeeding one another;…
Self-pity is the worst poverty. It overwhelms man and he sees nothing but his own troubles and pains. If one studies one’s surroundings, one finds that those who are happy are so because they have less thought of self. If they are unhappy, it is because they think of themselves too much. A person is…
