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Tag: patience

Dilruba Ahmed
Poetry

Dilruba Ahmed – Phase One

December 23, 2020December 23, 2020 Vanessa Able

Dilruba Ahmed's poem invokes forgiveness of ourselves and others like a cleansing rain 'relieved of cruelty and petty meanness.'

Tagged Compassion, forgiveness, love, mantra, patience1 Comment
Simone Weil
Book Bits

Simone Weil – The Infinite in an Instant

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

Simone Weil lauds 'unmixed attention', which she likens to prayer, and reflects on the quality of attention, expressed as 'patience, effort and method' to 'understand with our whole self the truths which are evident.'

Tagged activism, attention, effort, faith, infinite, love, patience, prayer, religion, truth, will1 Comment
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