let it slide...

the ability, of that which does not matter, to let it slide.
Let it slide.

We let things become such that they matter; unable to see its full run when it's all just part of the process.

let things be, let them slide.

Where the mind is without fear

    

     Where the mind is without fear 

   And the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

   Where the world has not been broken

up into fragments by narrow domestic walls

   Where the words come out from

the depth of the truth

   Where tireless striving stretches

its arms towards perfection

    Where the clear stream of reason

has not lost its way into 

   the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

   into overwhelming thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom

   my father, let my country awake!

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

Giving and Receiving...comes from the Almighty

"Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant,

and then takes it back from him, 

and the servant patiently endures his loss - 

then He rewards him with a blessing 

which is better than the one which He took back."

- Hazrat Umar ibn Abdul-Aziz, may Allah be well-pleased with him.

Pic taken in San Francisco, California

Blue Mountains Australia

I have so many memories and images of the Blue Mountains both in Print form and in my heart that this just reminded me of my time there. Ahh bliss.... one of the instantaneous places I felt connected to. I could live out there. People always wonder how a city girl from Singapore could resonate so well with a mountain place like the Blue Mountains. But, c'est la. 

"Comfort Zone"

Isn't this the sweetest thing? :)

Timely Reminder

‎"You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you."
~ Imam al-Ghazali

Zanzibar, East Africa, 2008

Dua of the Prophet

A lovely afternoon over here watching the rain spill wholesomely on the earth. Yet it's light enough to want to go out in it and be soaked :)

Equatorial musings ~