umi and love

Take me to the place
Where we talk with our eyes
To the place where even winter is warm
To the place where music is played all day
To the place where we sit next to God.

– Zamajobe, Ndawo Yami lyrics

“Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul break into applause.” – Hafez

“Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. Forgiveness is the final act of love.”

– Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.” – Rumi

“As a raindrop fell from a pregnant cloud, it looked at the ocean and said, “Who am I compared to this infinite sea?” The raindrop’s humility inspired the heart of an oyster to open it’s shell and let the raindrop inside, transforming it into a beautiful pearl.” – Attar of Nishapur, Persian poet

“I paint flowers
so they will not die.”

– Frida Kahlo

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“Were you to see the lights of prayer, or smell the perfumes of prayer, or see the angels that surround you, you wouldn’t leave the prayer for an hour, but He hid that from you so that you could be tested.”

– Egyptian Sufi master Sayyid Salih al-Ja’fari al-Husayni

“My personal experience in meditation brought me face to face with God. Hand in hand. Heart to heart. And almost to the point He was me and I was Him. We were just us. I don’t know how to phrase it, it was just a closeness that is impossible to be that close with a human.”

– Alice Coltrane