Perspective

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To figure out what was really happening behind the clichés, I’d learned, meant a practice of looking not at the centre but at the edges of things – at the unlikeliest and weakest people, not the most apparently powerful.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

Be broken

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Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart.

Never give up, never lose hope.

Allah says, “The broken ones are my beloved.”

Crush your heart. Be broken.

Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir, aka Nobody, Son of Nobody