as time is emptied

we can sometimes hide things from ourselves. can mask motivations. can stifle facts. can bury honest reality. can intentionally ignore sides to ourselves, with people, pretend that things have changed, or that the sky is a different colour.*
and this is a form of self-killing, even if done ‘for the best’. because eventually it will [...]

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anniversaire

the autumn leaves this year are unlike anything i’ve ever seen – driving in yesterday morning, the poplars had turned to flame, blazing orange, and the birch were standing tall and radiant. utter, to shake the foundations of soul. the recent pictures on flickr were from before this happened. last night was the first frost.
usman [...]

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i came to this world with nothing at all

1- i fall into the same rationalist/enlightenment garbage as anyone else.
2- interviews are celebrations of egotism. (?)
3- philosophy jokes make me feel such an elitist.
4- i had enough aeroplan miles to make it to mcMUN, and c said she’d find me a place to stay for free. but i don’t want to use that many [...]

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with rain the world grows us older

met the salrooqs in SUB. i stopped a few meters away, drew myself up to my full height, saluted and tried to click my heels.
it has taken a long time, to reach this place.
in preparation for the sacred web conference – reviewing: frithjof schuon, rene guenon, ananda coomaraswamy, titus burckhardt, martin lings, seyyed hossein nasr… [...]

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silence

i meant to write something tonight, about how, since returning, i have been feeling so acutely the cross-sections of rahmah, Mercy, and how strongly the greatness of His care is trickling down that i realize at every step, every moment, how vast and how minutely it reaches. “the atomism of ni’m”…
but that must wait: i [...]

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and existence wills itself to be justified

he came walking from between the aureoles of light and the unholy cairns which served as his shrines, the altars where daily he revered his memory and his longing. to reach the threshold he passed through trials of water and of fire and prepared burnt offerings of both reason and revelation, of both day and [...]

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