#uf

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#music #song #songwriting #music

در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد روزها با سوزها همراه شد ↗

— Rumi

#religion #rumi #spirituality #sufism #religion

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#compassion #grounded #oneness #receiving #separation

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. ↗

— Said Nursi

#islam #nursi #sufism #worry #islam

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ↗

— Adam Ant

#i #illness #life #most #my life

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot. ↗

— John Fahey

#anything #father #him #i #knew

Over time, it is all too common for people to lose touch with their heritage, as the thrill and immediacy of the present crowds out the echoes and lessons of the past. It would be a shame if that were to happen with respect to the fur trade. It is a seminal part of who we are as a nation, and how we came to be. ↗

— Eric Jay Dolin

#astor #beaver #buffalo #fur #fur-trade

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dog

Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast! ↗

— Jim Diamond

#good #hear #i #kinda #me

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hurting #prayer #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sadness