the most beautiful thing

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart."

-hellen keller-

the most beautiful thing.....

something dear and precious

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“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for, then you aren’t fit to live.

You may be 35 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause,  But you refuse to do it because you are afraid.

You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot you or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.

Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 35 as you would be at ninety.

And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.
You died when you refused to stand up for right.
You died when you refused to stand up for truth.
You died when you refused to stand up for justice.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From the sermon “But, If Not” delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church on November 5, 1967.

mengapa kanak2..

rumi : a children's game

Listen to the poet Sanai,

who lived secluded: "Don't wander out on the road
in your ecstasy. Sleep in the tavern."

When a drunk strays out to the street,
children make fun of him.
                        He falls down in the mud.
He takes any and every road.
                  The children follow,
not knowing the taste of wine, or how
his drunkenness feels. All people on the planet 
are children, except for a very few.
No one is grown up exept those free of desire.

God said,
          "The world is a play, a children's game,
and you are the children."
              God speaks the truth.
If you haven't left the child's play,
how can you be an adult?
              Without purity of spirit,
if you're still in the middle of lust and greed
and other wantings, your like children 
playing at sexual intercourse.
                  They wrestle
and rub together, but it's not sex!

The same with the fightings of mankind.
It's a squabble with play-swords.
No purpose, totally futile.

Like kids on hobby horses, soldiers claim to be riding
Boraq, Muhammad's night-horse, or Duldul, his mule.

Your actions mean nothing, the sex and the war that you do.
You're holding part of your pants and prancing around,
Dun-da-dun, dun-da-dun

Don't wait till you die to see this.
Recognize that your imagination and your thinking
and your sense perception are reed canes
that children cut and pretend are horsies.

The knowing of mystic lovers is different.
The empirical, sensory, sciences
are like a donkey loaded with books,
or like the makeup woman's makeup
                      It washes off.
But if you lift the baggage rightly, it will give joy.
Don't carry your knowledge-load for some selfish reason.
Deny your desires and willfulness,
and a real mount may appear under you.

Don't be satisfied with the name of HU,
with just words about it.

Experience that breathing.
From books and words come fantasy,
and sometimes, from fantasy comes union

Jihad bagi seorang kanak2

The most challenging things in a man's life :

1. woman

2. wealth

as wut my mum said...

the number 1 is already in my list..young adult male, what do u expect.?

number 2, i guess it will hit me once im in career part of my life.

biarlah no.1 itu menjadi jihad buat waktu ini..