Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.
The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One
I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.