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Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind

Emily Dickinson - @ahimsafeed

A farmer's horse ran away. His neighbours came to say how terrible it was. "Maybe," said the farmer. The next day the horse returned, bringing with it three wild horses. The neighbours came to say how wonderful it was. "Maybe," said the farmer. The following day his son tried to ride one of the wild horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbours came to offer their sympathy. "Maybe," said the farmer. The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing the son's broken leg, they passed him by. The neighbours came to say how fortunate it was. "Maybe," said the farmer.

A Zen story - @ahimsafeed

We eat, excrete, sleep, and get up; this is our world. All we have to do after that is to die.

Ikkyu - @ahimsafeed

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks - @ahimsafeed

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless.

Zhuangzi - @ahimsafeed

The thief left it behind: the moon at my window.

Ryokan - @ahimsafeed

I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.

Franz Kafka - @ahimsafeed

In the quiet moments of surrender, you will find that you are not separate from the universe; you are the pulse of the universe, the heartbeat of eternity.

Anonymous - @ahimsafeed

Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Rumi - @ahimsafeed

“ou are the drop and the ocean, the silence and the word, the question and the answer. Do not seek the end; you are endless. Do not hold yourself apart; you are the whole. In the stillness of your being, you will remember what you have always been.

Kahlil Gibran, On the infinite - @ahimsafeed

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin Roosevelt - @ahimsafeed

All good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau - @ahimsafeed

If for a while God forgot that I'm a puppet and gave me a piece of life, probably I wouldn't say everything that I think, but definitively I would think everything that I say. I would give more value to things not because of what they cost but because of what they mean. I would sleep less and dream more. I understand that for each minute that we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light. I would walk when the others stopped, I would wake up when the others slept, I would listen when the others spoke, and how much I would enjoy a chocolate ice-cream! If God gave me a piece of life I would dress simply, I would lie on the sun, showing not only my body but my soul. My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on the ice and I would wait for the sun to rise. My God, if I had a piece of life... I won't let a single day pass without saying people I love how much I love them. I would convince every single women and men that they are my favorites and I would live in love with love. I would prove people how wrong they are to think that they stop falling in love when they get older, without knowing that they get older when they stop falling in love. To a kid I would give him wings, but I let him alone to learn how to fly. To the elder I would teach them that death does not arrive with being old but with forgetting. I have learned that everybody wants to live in the pick of the mountain without knowing that the true happiness lays in the way you get into it. I have learned that when a new born grasps his father's fist for the first time, he caught him forever. I have learned that a man has only the right to look down to another when he has to help him to stand up. If I knew today as the last time I'm gonna see you sleep, I would hug you so strong and I would pray the lord to be able to be the guardian of your soul. If I knew this is the last time I'm gonna see you going out through that door, I would give you a hug, a kiss and I would call you again to give you more. If I knew this was the last time I am gonna hear your voice, I would record each one of your words to be able to hear them forever. If I knew these were the last moments I see you, I would tell you "I love you" and I wouldn't assume, stupidly, that you already know it. There is always a tomorrow and life gives us the opportunity to do things right, but in case I'm wrong and today is the only thing we have left, I would like to tell you how much I love you, and that I'm never going to forget you. Nobody has for sure a tomorrow, young or old. So don't wait more, do it today, because if tomorrow never comes, you will for sure regret the day you didn't take time for a smile, a hug, a kiss. Keep the ones you love near you. Tell them in their ear how much you need them. Take time to tell them "I'm sorry", "forgive me", "please", "thank you", and all the love words you know. Nobody will remember you for your secret thoughts. Ask God for the strength and the wisdom to express them. Show your friend how important they are for you.

Farewell letter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - @ahimsafeed