é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right." - Malala on confrontation with Taliban.
"The attack was a warning to all youngsters in the area that they would be targeted if they followed her example." - Taliban Spokesman.
- Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) 15 year old Pakistani student and activist. Escaped assassination when a bullet shot through her skull in the attempt to silence her from promoting basic women rights for education. United Nations has announced 10 November as Malala Day. Malala miraculously survived and became the youngest person nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2013.
I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taleban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taleban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.
Only 11 pupils attended the class out of 27. The number decreased because of Taleban's edict. My three friends have shifted to Peshawar, Lahore and Rawalpindi with their families after this edict.
On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you'. I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
“”Malala Yousafzai, 3 January 2009 BBC blog entry
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"Today you can see that I'm alive. I can speak, I can see you. I can see everyone. And today I can speak and I'm getting better day by day. It's just because of the prayers of people… because all the people, mainly women, children all of them have prayed for me...Because of these prayers, god has given me this new life. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child to be educated....I will continue to fight."
- Malala Yousufzai, Nobel Prize for Peace 2013 Nominee
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Cause and Effect
Those who ill-treat or kill animals in the past or in this present life will meet with many sicknesses in life.
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Cause and Effect
If in the past life or in this present life one has lived virtuously, committing no evil, one's coming generation will be blessed with virtuous children. Even if the parents of such children are uneducated, the children will be endowed with intelligence and graduate with flying colours.
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"A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakeable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbours, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habbit of the blood. At five years old, mortals are not prepared to be citizens of the world, to be stimulated by abstract nouns, to soar above preference into impartiality; and that prejudice in favour of milk with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished at least for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead." ~ GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.� ― Charles Dickens, Hard Times
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“and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction� ― Isaac Newton
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“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.� ― Rumi
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.� ― Rumi
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“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.� ― Rumi
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" It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui ". ~ Helen Keller
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes". ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth". ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.� “The unexamined life is not worth living.� “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.� ― Socrates
