By Lulu Morris
This picture was taken during the most dangerous period of Nazi occupied Germany.
Category: Humanities
By Gibran Khalil Gibran
My soul charged me to gaze steadfastly upon all that is deemed ugly until it appears lovely
Before my soul had thus charged and counseled me, I had seemed to see beauty like unto wavering torches between pillars of smoke;
But now the smoke has dispersed and vanished and I see naught but the burning.
Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union collapsed. Unable to come home, he wound up spending two times longer than originally planned in orbit. They simply refused to bring him back.
“I am more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.” For King, capitalism was “a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”
The best book review I have ever read. Somehow, it sums up my life in the last 6 years or so.
عندما مات عام 1928 شارك في جنازته 50 ألف مسلم دمشقي من بينهم عدد كبير من شيوخ المسلمين، وقيل إن المسلمين أرادوا الصلاة عليه في الجامع الأموي الكبير لقرب مناقبه من الإسلام حتى أن الكثيرين أسموه محمد “غريغوريوس” و”أبو الفقراء والمسلمين،” إنه البطريرك غريغو ريوس حداد الذي كان شخصية إنسانية عظيمة وعلى درجة عالية من الوطنية والتسامح، وواحداً من رجالات سوريا الذين عرفوا قيمة الوطن وصانوه ودافعوا عنه وعن أبنائه بالحب والعطاء. علاقته مع الإسلام والمسلمين مثال يحتذى به في التسامح والمحبة.
May God bless you this year with a restless discomfort, holy anger, the gift of tears and enough foolishness.
