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June 19 - June 23, 2020
“after nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. Their roots are in their native soil; but their branches wave in the unpatriotic air, that speaks the same language unto men, and their leaves shine with the illimitable light that pervades all lands. NARGUESS FARZAD
One must never compare oneself to others, even though they may appear to be the same on the surface; truly nothing is as it seems!”
When you look at everything in life with the eyes of want and greed, whom do you hope to escape? Yourself? God? Is that possible?
The fly was gloating in her pride, floating on the stream of urine, believing that she was sailing the seven seas. Unbeknown to her, she was still the same lowly fly she'd always been, driven along by the furious pace of the urine's flow, unaware that nothing truly is as it seems.
Was it not true that the human tongue is like an uneasy aggregation of rock and iron, which, when struck against each other, can spark off a fire?
