My Little Boat Quotes

“Every moment is like a mosaic of truths and untruths, of light and shade, of sadness and joy, remorse and pride...but when you take a step you little know which colours will spill over and unfold before you”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“The power of the unrevealed moves this world ... moves civilizations. Millions of men and women walk this earth carrying within them a million secrets each…powerful secrets, loves, hates, desires, dreams, images, unrevealed. Unuttered, unacknowledged, they knock about us, gathering momentum, until they cause us to engage in the unexpected, sometimes the unwanted…”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“The soul has a destiny which is not always in concordance with the destiny of the body. In our dreams we are revealed images of the journeying of the soul. The soul is errant, across Time and Space...while the body is bound by them. Yet, in spite of the body, the soul must complete its journey, stage by stage, image by image. It is the tension between the path of the soul and the path the body must follow, that ages us, destroys us. Could the body and the soul find harmony, we would become immortal.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“Life is Incompleteness itself. Incomplete selves, incomplete relationships. A series of incomplete stories. Stories reincarnated as souls, souls reincarnated as stories. In reeds, in rivers, in hollow trees. Does the dying of Ooga make a completeness? Or the rolling of the head of Babban Hajjam? Or the going away of Nephele, sister of the clouds? Is there no completeness until the drop mingles with the ocean? And the path to the ocean, does every droplet find its way by itself? Is there a best way?”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“One spends years with people, and they remain only shadows... and then someone you may not have known suddenly has clear outlines, is three dimensional, real. So we must travel, travel to seek out the reality of our lives, to complete the journey of the soul. Or die, (...) waiting to travel, perhaps in another life. Nature intended us to be nomads.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“My path cannot be one of those defined by men. I must find my own way.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“Nasreen “ My mother always said that religion in the hands of the young is like fragrant potter’s clay in the hands of a monkey.”. “When the lumps fall and harden, they are misshapen forever. Nothing beautiful can come of them.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“In the same way most people believe that they are the favourites of the Almighty, and that their interpretation of faith is the only one. Perhaps that is the way human beings bring themselves to survive and do what they must do in the face of the great odds which most of us have to face. Everyone needs to feel special to carry on. What better than to feel special in the eyes of God? But they can only be sure they are special if they can point out someone who is not.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“From the womb of a free spirit can never be born a spirit in bondage.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat

“The world is a natural matriarchy( ..... )No name, nor elaborate family tree, no fancy patriarchal heritage can change that. When we do not understand ourselves, it is because we have not ever made the effort of knowing our mothers.”
― Mariam Karim, My Little Boat