"The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr."

-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Heart Quotes #Light Quotes #Dhikr Quotes

“What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.”
“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”
“I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.”
“I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”
“I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.”
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
“In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.”

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