February 19, 2011
Today’s Words of Wisdom #15
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
Someone related this to me from her math class and I found it profound in many ways:
“You can’t solve a problem unless you understand it first.”
—Random Math Teacher
February 17, 2011
On Pain–Khalil Gibran
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Assalamu Alaikum,
Today I went for a walk near the pond by my home. There was a small hole in the sheet of ice and a small puddle of water was visible under the bridge. I saw a shadow of my reflection and I was unhappy what I saw. From last year until now, I learned a lot about the world around me, but I became afraid that I was forgetting about myself. I do not want to lose my sense of self in the flow of life. Recently, I think I have been ruining my relationships with others and that realization had brought a unique type of pain in my heart. Then God’s Invitation found its way to me, inside a poem I read in a book:
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