Reminders for myself

The Scholar

Aug 25

This Arabic poem will find you when you need it most

“إذا كانت نيتك ‘لا أبرح حتى أبلغ’ فلا بُد أن ‘تصبر على ما لم تُحِط به خبرًا’”

If your intention is, ‘I will not give up until I reach,’ then you must ‘be patient with what you cannot comprehend .’

The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail

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