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“Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.”
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“I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.”
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“He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.”
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“I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.”
Source : Islamica Magazine Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. July 2, 2006.
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“Different isn't bad, it's just different.”
Source : "America Morning", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2011.
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“I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.”
Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
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“The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.”
Source : Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins
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“When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.”
Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from Oct 16, 2013