So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning....Morrie Schwartz

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning....Morrie Schwartz

Live with integrity: A father’s power, wealth, political beliefs and religious opinions mean little to his children. Your children will remember your integrity. They will remember how honest you were, that you never cheated anyone

Live with integrity:  A father’s power, wealth, political beliefs and religious opinions mean little to his children. Your children will remember your integrity. They will remember how honest you were, that you never cheated anyone.

A Christian Who Loves a Muslim

"Ali has been vastly more than an example of a kid gone straight who lived the American dream. He has been as a political activist, humanitarian, sage and, especially as a Muslim, a guide for this Christian -- and I suspect for many more. Equally important, at a time when Americans seem to be addicted to hoarding weapons (as never before), Ali reminds us that the ring is a better place than the streets and boxing gloves are better than guns for working out our anger and our fears. The violence that once again knocks at the doors of our embassies sickens me just as much as hatred against Muslims. Maybe those of us who are Christian and American could be helpful at this moment by remembering Muhammad Ali and saying to our near and distant neighbors: Assalamu alaikum -- Peace be with you."...Willie James Jennings.Associate Professor, Duke Divinity School.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/willie-james-jennings/a-christian-who-loves-a-muslim_b_1898630.html?utm_hp_ref=religion#es_share_ended

Relationships is not about finding the right person, it is about being the right person

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Relationships is not about finding the right person, it is about being the right person...

Happiness

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. ~ W. Beran Wolfe

Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler/wayfarer.

Narrated by Ibn ‘Umar, radiyallahu ‘anhuma, who said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said:

Be in this world as though you were a stranger or a traveler/wayfarer.
When evening comes, do not expect (to live till) morning, and when morning comes, do not expect (to live till) evening. Take from your health (a preparation) for your illness, and from your life for your death.[Al-Bukhari]

Do not become proud of your position. Do not beomce harsh towards those weaker than yourself

Finally Gabriel gave Muhammad(Salallahu Alaiyhi Wasalam) these instructions: Do not become proud of your position. Do not beomce harsh towards those weaker than yourself. And always speak of God's kindness to you. And Prophet Muhammad (Salallahu Alaiyhi Wasalam) obeyed these instructions diligently throughout his life.-Ibn Isaq, The Life of Muhammad

Full Episode: Oprah and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Sufism and the Wisdom of the Heart

Full Episode: Oprah and Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Sufism and the Wisdom of the Heart

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/Full-Episode-Oprah-and-Llewellyn-Vaughan-Lee-Video#ixzz25ehvpVNC

Small Mosques

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Mosque in small Nepali Town

Bus ride from Chitwan to Pokhara, Nepal ... Mosque

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Abiquiu, N.M.

This small mosque near the mountains was built by Benyamin van Hattum.

http://moeflich.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/30_days_30mosques_17.jpg

http://moeflich.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/30-mosques-in-30-days-an-american-trip/

The first part of anger is madness and the second is regret

The first part of anger is madness and the second is regret. Passion and blindness are inseparable mates. Beware of anger, for it ends in the humiliation of apology. Anger leads to all kinds of evil. When you are angry be silent. It is not a trait of noble character to be hasty either in anger or in revenge. The anger of a fool reveals itself in what he says, and the anger of a wise man in what he does. Quarrelsomeness is a contemptible habit. Call not yourself a man so long as you are angry....Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913], at sacred-texts.com