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)
Thank you for being my Friend. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks
Have the best week of your life. Best wishes ever,
Demonstrators attend a rally near Times Square in solidarity with Iranian people whose human rights are being abused in Iran on July 25, 2009 in New York City. Similar rallies billed as 'a global day of action' by organizers have been scheduled in major cities around the world.
Welcome to my circle of friends. I look forward to getting to know you. Take care and have a fantastic day.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Blah...LOL! I'm bored! The ending of the week is coming, I want to wear a blue dress tomorrow but I don't even want to ask Mom...She might snap again! -_-"
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)
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