Couldn’t agree more =)
Beams of light could be captured and crafted well to transform chores and normal subjects to be a ‘painting’ in the realm of our mind. Haven’t we ceased to be in awe of such simple luxuries when we are engrossed into our routines? May your day be beautiful.
Original photograph by Nasna Nassir.
” Money rules our lives. You can rail against it. You can claim to be above it or indifferent to it. You can do all the moral and intellectual gymnastics that you will. But when all is said and done, money is at the very center of our existence. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living. This is one of our great dilemmas. How are we to reconcile ourselves to something that is not important but is at the very center of our lives?
People who measure their money against their desires will never be happy, because there is always another desire waiting to lure them. People who measure their money against their needs can gain control over their life by gaining control over their needs.There are certain needs that have to be met. If the burden of poverty comes over you, do not look for money. Look for work. The money will follow, and you can begin to move money out of the center of your life and return it to its rightful place as a tool that helps you live a meaningful life.Financial well-being is nothing more than a balancing act on the back of circumstance. You can be thrown off at any time.
If you know how to be poor with dignity and grace, nothing short of massive financial disaster can disturb your peace of mind. Knowing how to be poor means developing an unerring instinct for the difference between what is essential and what is desirable. It means knowing how to take control of your life–how to repair and maintain the things around you, how to purchase wisely and well, how not to purchase at all when you do not have the means to do so, how to take joy in simple pleasures of life. It means not getting caught up in what is lacking, but finding meaning in what you have. It means knowing how to live with style and creativity without basing your life on money. “
Flying over Andaman Islands. Havelock is literally a paradise with its white sand shores and lush, untouched landscapes. Visual treat for the soul.
” The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
This is generously true about many souls whom I’ve come across in my short life that I’ve felt a sort of veneration and admiration for. I’m a great admirer of deep rooted friendships devoid of any recklessness and noise. I graciously stand in awe of the warmth and serenity they instill. I’m ever grateful to Almighty for making the universe conspire with a divine plan of blessing me with a solacious spouse and a few group of great friends around. And I also strive my best to embrace them with serenity and in my wings of love . There are lot of things to be grateful for. God bless! =)
“Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.”
– Edvard Munch
A photograph from my visit to Istanbul.
I believe this’d be worth your time.
It’s a delight to ponder on the profundities of allegories drawing on metaphors and parables. I usually archive such writings that I go through. Here is one =)
Millions of electric lights that move and travel through a wondrous city, their fuel and power source never being exhausted, self-evidently make known a wonder-working craftsman and extraordinarily talented electrician who manages the electricity, makes the moving lamps, sets up the power source, and brings the fuel; they cause others to congratulate and applaud him, and to love him. In just the same way, although some of the lamps of the stars in the roof of the palace of the world in the city of the universe –if they are considered in the way that astronomy says– are a thousand times larger than the earth and move seventy times faster than a cannon-ball, they do not spoil their order, nor collide with one another, nor become extinguished, nor is their fuel exhausted. According to astronomy, which you study, for our sun to continue burning, which is a million times larger than the earth and a million times older and is a lamp and stove in one guest-house of the Most Merciful One, as much oil as the seas of the earth and as much coal as its mountains or as many logs and much wood as ten earths are necessary for it not to be extinguished. And however much greater and more perfect than this example are the electric lamps of the palace of the world in the majestic city of the universe, which point with their fingers of light to an infinite power and sovereignty which illuminates the sun and other lofty stars like it without oil, wood, or coal, not allowing them to be extinguished or to collide with one another, though traveling together at speed, to that degree – by means of the measure of the science of electricity which you either study or will study – they testify to and make known the Monarch, Illuminator, Director, and Maker of the mighty exhibition of the universe; they make Him loved, glorified, and worshipped.
(An Excerpt from “The Words” , Fruits of Belief)
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
Trying to drub planned obsolescence on electronics I own. Would try to report the findings of this in 2020, God willing. Basic software updates are to be trimmed down. Running programs / apps in the original versions at the time of release for a specific hardware set. (Unless it’s a very specific security update). My mind mumbles that the devices would last longer. (grin)
Phoenix : A legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years (Wordweb)
I started blogging in 2006. The most passive way of venting out our creative elan and zeal, a platform for jotting down our mind’s undulations and waves. Apart from the initial years of my teenage, I have held myself anonymous in my online writings. People whom I looked up to for their endearing blogs were long-term cyberspace veterans who started writing online before 2000s when blogging was not vernacular as it is now.
After some braced, steady writing for about 2 years, I was into my learning stage of my 20s where you get passionate about what you learn and your blog is filled up with what you have read and learned. Basically, after those years, my blogging habit was on a utter hitch. The introvert in me prevented and finished off all the attempts for me to be back in embarking the ship of writing. I had deleted some half-cooked blogs and then came a time where I found social media websites as an instrumentate for writing and partaking what I’ve been up to. Being a soul who easily become blasé with these sort of stuff eventually gave up that as well.
I’m now on an endeavor to be back in control of my little life and to develop a more intimate and personal relationship with Almighty. In the end, it’s what matters. Everything else is bound to fade out in time. I’d try to keep the blog upto-date with my growth, as little as it may be. I might also share some non-contextual help-to notes on fields you might be least interested. That might be only to provide a self – reference on that topic.
Here I’m 🙂
I hope this would sustain and stand the test of time.
