The unforgettable

It just never seems to go away
No matter how strong of a person
you have made yourself into
there is something that
always finds its way into your heart
tries to stab it over and over again
I had closed all the doors.
And all the windows.
But the eyes!
they can't conceal secrets.
They give away the weakness
they make me vulnerable.
The haunting past
written all over my face
It masks my heart
like a thick mould
This battle isn't between you and I
it is not between life and death
it is between today
and the unforgettable
the past.

The best friend

The Best Friend

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always been glad to give to me ; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant old friend of mine, to me along the way.
- Eat. Pray. Love —

Beautiful piece...

I am not sure if I agree with everything said here (especially the last paragraph) but I find it beautiful.



Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen, 2006).

When you exhibit positive and negative qualities, you are not flawed; you are complete. When you are comfortable with your shadow, when you embrace your shadow because this is how the infinite consciousness made you, then you are attractive beyond measure, and your life is an adventure. You are natural when you are comfortable with your ambiguity, and nothing is more beautiful than being natural.
When you are comfortable with both your strengths and weaknesses, you radiate simple, unaffected humanity. This is the essence of being lovable because you are not subject to behaviors that drive love away. You do not constantly look for approval by getting caught up in thinking: What do others think of me? Am I superior, am I inferior? Do people like me, or do they dislike me? You don’t constantly compare yourself to an ideal that doesn’t exist. Your ego doesn’t say to you, “I’m not good enough. I’m not pretty enough. I’m not handsome enough. I’m not rich enough.”

If your experience of yourself is object-referred, it is fear-based and resistant to what is. If your experience of yourself is self-referred, it is love-based and accepting of what is. Self-referred people are natural and unaffected by the opinions of others. They are innocent, simple and childlike. Thank you, God, for making me just like I am. I have good things, and I have bad things; I have all things in me. I am complete. Self-acceptance, total self-acceptance, means self-forgiveness. When you forgive yourself and stop judging yourself, then you won’t judge others, and there will be less conflict in the world.

Between the old and new

Gone.

Ramadan Kareem

One of the first duas (prayers) I learned as a kid. It still echoes in my ear.

Karam maangta hoon Ataa maangta hoon
Ellaahi mein tujh se Dua maangta hoon

Atta kar tu Shaan-e-Kareemi ka sadqa
Atta kar de Shaam-e-Raheemi ka sadqa
Na maangunga tujh se tau maangunga kis se
Tera hoon mein tujh se Dua maangta hoon

Jo muflis hain un ko tau daulat atta kar
Jo beemaar hain un ko sehat atta kar
Mareezoon ke khaatir shifa maangta hoon
Ellahi mein tujh se dua maangta hoon

Maula Mein sadqa-e-Zehra sada maangta hoon
Ellahi mein tujhse dua maangta hoon

Jo nadaar hain kuch nahe jin ke pallay
Unhain bhi dikha de Haram ke tu jalway
Hazroori ho sab ki dua maangta hoon
Ellahi mein tujh se duwa maangta hoon

Wattan ke bharaktay sharaaray bhuja de Issay phir
akhuwat ka gulshan bana de
Mein amn-o-aman ki ridda maangta hoon
Ellahi mein tujh se dua maangta hoon

Ellahi tujhse waasta Panjtan ka
Ho shadaab guncha diloon ke chamman ka
Mein sadq-e-Ghous-ul-Wara maangta hoon
Ellahi mein tujh se dua maangta hoon

Sorry

Freedom

Ramadan mubarak everyone!

What does 'freedom' mean?
Does the eagle want to swim in the sea,
Restricted by the sky?
Does the fish want to dance on the wind,
Not enough river to explore?
Yet the sky is freedom for the bird
but death for the fish,
The sea is wide for the fish
but will engulf the bird.
We ask for freedom but freedom to do what?
We can only express our nature as it was created.
The prayer mat of the earth is freedom,
freedom from slavery to other than the One,
Who offers an shoreless ocean of love to swim in
and a horizon that extends to the next life,
Yet we chose the prison and call it freedom.