"As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected."

-- Julia Cameron

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“The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.”
“What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

Source : "Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.
“Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.”
“A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.”
“I must be the oldest living child soprano.”

Source : "The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era". Book by James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers (p. 295), 1972.
“Unlike boxers-or any professional athlete for that matter-rowers have little motivation to do it longer than necessary. With a modest amount of self-realization, you'll know when you have acquired the nebulous gifts that rowing has to offer, whether it's courage or a strengthened soul or a powerful body. Once you have it, drop back ten yards and punt. Someone new will pick up the ball and run with it.”
“There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.”

Source : "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity". Interview with Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2010.

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