Mohammad

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“تو ای دوستدار علی، تو ای دوستدار فاطمه، و تو ای دوستدار حسنین؛ فکر مکن که دوستی تو نسبت به آنها به این است که چیزی نذرشان کنی! مثلا سفره نذرشان کنی، چلچراغ نذرشان کنی... این دوستی آنها نیست. آنها اهل این حرفها نیستند تا دوستیشان به این چیزها باشد. دوستی تو به آنها در کجا نمودار می‌شود؟ فقط یک جا، و آن رفتار تو، عقیده تو، اندیشه تو، فکر تو و عمل توست. هر قدر عقیده و اندیشه و عملت به اینها نزدیکتر باشد نشانه آن است که دوستی راستین صحیح آنها در تو ریشه دار تر است. محبت اهل بیت و ولایت آنها بازده و ثمره‌ای جز اطاعت بیشتر خدا و پرهیز بیشتر از معصیت خدا ندارد.”
― Sayyid Mohammad Hosseini Beheshti, ولایت، رهبری، روحانیت

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott