Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Surrender yourself!

All the good and all the evil come from God. Only God owns the rightful willpower. In creation, God spared to mankind the will to choose. Choose to surrender* to God's will truly and completely. Any other choice is in vain.
*The meaning of the word surrender is teslim, and teslim means Islam.

The existence of God cannot be proven or disproved

Knowing something takes away the necessity to believe it. After all, you know that it exists; you have proven it. The most difficult thing is to sway your instincts with your belief. You cannot prove the existence of God; therefore, you have the absolute freedom to choose. Your only reference is your own conscience.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Optimistic Man

as a child he never plucked the wings off flies
he didn't tie tin cans to cats' tails
or lock beetles in matchboxes
or stomp anthills
he grew up
and all those things were done to him
I was at his bedside when he died
he said read me a poem
about the sun and the sea
about nuclear reactors and satellites
about the greatness of humanity

Nazim Hikmet

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

It is you...

There is nothing wrong with humans. They just don't know. Their minds are not free. For that everybody behaves accordingly. Understand them, stand them, educate them, set them free. It is you that you hate. That you are able to hate. It is yourself, your actual self, you see in them. And you don't like. Love yourself to begin with. Love begins in you.