Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, they become destiny.
(Source: Back of book cover of Pearls of Wisdom 3)
Small minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas
Author and founder of Project Ijtihad, Irshad Manji, speaking at the Secular Islam Summit
Raquel Evita Saraswati- Mi Hermana y inspiracion <3
Project Ijtihad at the Secular Islam Summit
Irshad Manji
Kwan-yin (Chinese Madonna)
Sarah Shahi plays Carmen on The L-Word
Robin Roberts
Melina Kanakaredes
Books
The Holy Qur'an and a vast array of spiritual texts,
Holocaust fiction, International, humanitarian and spiritual themes...Self-help, medicine, linguistics, business, Reform minded Islam...and just about anything I'm in the mood for...and let's see of I can finish the entire piece, haha.
Heroes
Allah, the messengers, Sumayya (1st Muslim martyr), Mary, Mariam- siater of Moses, Amma, Begum Aga Khan, the P.I. family, my kin, teachers, friends, Gandhi and so much more. The homeless but not heartless ones. Those that took "no" to mean "yes".
“Is he a Sunni with Shaih sympathies or a Shaih with Sunni sympathies?” Mr. Churchill wrote, using an antiquated spelling. (“I always get mixed up between these two,” he added.)
Zainab Salbi
About me:
O ye peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My commandments are the lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My creatures. (Kitabi Aqdas)
"Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are." - RUMI
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Aya Mishler, 19, is an adoptee, Native American, European and Judeo-Christian based in the US. She describes her artistic self as an undercover shaman/osteopathic doctor trying to treat and heal people as a whole. Poverty is a prominent theme throughout her writing. She is a Muslim convert and also a lesbian. She is part of Project Ijtihad; an organization spearheaded by Irshad Manji-- which is a movement that encourages and sheds light on Islam's own tradition of critical thinking and debate.
Whatever words and deeds are noblest, best,
Teach me, O Mazda, make my life express,
Through love of fellow-man,
Through search for truth,
The yearnings and the prayers of my heart;
Renew, Ahura, through the strength to serve,
My life, and make it as Thou wishest-true.
The Gathas of Zarathustra, Ahunavaiti 7.15, Yasna 34.15.
Forgive me my sins, O Lord; forgive me the sins of my youth and the sins of mine age, the sins of my soul and the sins of my body, my secret and my whispering sins, the sins I have done to please myself and the sins I have done to please others. Forgive those sins which I know, and the sins which I know not; forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all of Thy great goodness. Amen
Who I'd like to meet: "I am looking forward to portraying a good image of Islam, one that's forgiving and promotes peace"-Fatima Titi, 24, Female Sheikh in Morocco
The sensuous eye is a horse;
the light of God is the rider:
without the rider the horse is useless.
The light of God rides the body's eye.
The soul yearns for God.
God's light enhances the senses.
This is the meaning of Light upon Light.
[II, 1286, 1290-3]
'O you who believe! Be upholders of justice, witnesses for God, even if it be against yourselves, or your parents and kin' (Quran, 4:135)
Islám is heaven; fasting is its sun, prayer, its moon (Kitabi Iqan)
I love your pictures!!!!! You have so many different looks in your albums! It was great talking to you also. I promise to keep an eye open and send a young girl your way. Have a safe holiday....see you soon!
Safe travels and happy times, Aya! The Prophet's sunnah upon entering a new city was to pray a du‘a’ that the people there will LOVE you. That's my du‘a’ for you in California.
LOL! That is my Xbox 360 mic so I can talk on the live games but it doesn't work! =[ I just put it on cause it matched the color of the gum! Hehehahah!
Blessings for the week my dear friend. Awake, awake, the veil has dropped.
O living flame of love that tenderly wounds my soul in its deepest center! Since now you are not oppressive, now consummate! if it be your will: tear through the veil of this sweet encounter!
assalam alaikoum sister :) how are you ? it makes a long time ago :) i hope everything is OK . take care and keep in touch inchaAllah. salam and love from Paris
Thanks for the add and hope you have a wonderful 2009.
A Flower into the Night.
I know, my love, I am tested here in pleasure like a drunkard in a wine cellar. Wearing only my soft skin, baptized by the light, I enter into the palm forest, an oasis with water bubbling in pools, like your love I feel within me. Away in every direction the wind blows the sand obscuring the horizon, until it is one with the amber sky. Breathe deeply and slowly until the dust of the mind settles and I curl into you like a flower into the night. For here, oh glorious one, is where I must face both pleasure and pain, chained to this skeleton which one day will blow in the wind like the sand around me.
Here to make a spiritual and social upliftment. 
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Raquel Evita Saraswati- Mi Hermana y inspiracion <3
Anne Sexton (Confessioanl Poet)
Project Ijtihad at the Secular Islam Summit
Irshad Manji
Kwan-yin (Chinese Madonna)
Sarah Shahi plays Carmen on The L-Word
Robin Roberts
Melina Kanakaredes
Allah, the messengers, Sumayya (1st Muslim martyr), Mary, Mariam- siater of Moses, Amma, Begum Aga Khan, the P.I. family, my kin, teachers, friends, Gandhi and so much more. The homeless but not heartless ones. Those that took "no" to mean "yes". 
Zainab Salbi 
O ye peoples of the world! Know assuredly that My commandments are the lamps of My loving providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My creatures. (Kitabi Aqdas)
"Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are." - RUMI
Whatever words and deeds are noblest, best,
Teach me, O Mazda, make my life express,
Through love of fellow-man,
Through search for truth,
The yearnings and the prayers of my heart;
Renew, Ahura, through the strength to serve,
My life, and make it as Thou wishest-true.
The Gathas of Zarathustra, Ahunavaiti 7.15, Yasna 34.15.
Forgive me my sins, O Lord; forgive me the sins of my youth and the sins of mine age, the sins of my soul and the sins of my body, my secret and my whispering sins, the sins I have done to please myself and the sins I have done to please others. Forgive those sins which I know, and the sins which I know not; forgive them, O Lord, forgive them all of Thy great goodness. Amen
'O you who believe! Be upholders of justice, witnesses for God, even if it be against yourselves, or your parents and kin' (Quran, 4:135)
Islám is heaven; fasting is its sun, prayer, its moon (Kitabi Iqan)
