I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mat… - Hermann Hesse

My life, I resolved, ought to be a perpetual transcending, a progression from stage to stage; I wanted it to pass through one area after the next, leaving each behind, as music moves on from theme to theme, from tempo to tempo, playing each out to the end, completing each and leaving it behind, never tiring, never sleeping, forever wakeful, forever in the present. In connection with the experiences of awakening, I had noticed that such stages and such areas exist, and that each successive period in one’s life bears within itself, as it is approaching its end, a note of fading and eagerness for death. That in turn leads to a shifting to a new area, to awakening and new beginnings.

إنهم يعرفون كم غراماً من البارود تحتاج لقتل إنسان لكنهم لا يغرفون كيف تصلي إلى الله, لا يعرفون حتى كيف تكون سعيداً و لو لمدة ساعه من الرضا

Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.