Category: Meditations

“A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.”
―Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

What leads you to say “no” to a reasonable request?

Perhaps the dignity of our lives and our passing is marked less by the trappings of white gloves and shiny cars than by the ways in which those whom our lives have touched gather around us to pay respect.

Who has earned the dignity of your undying respect?

When confronted with a wealth of delicious options, the temptation is to try to have it all. But sometimes your experience is better if you slow down and start with just a taste so that you can proceed with more focused delight.

When have you been glad at just a little bit of something good?

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
―Jennifer Donnelly

When have you broken a promise in order to keep yourself whole?

Imagine you are standing under the dome of an umbrella, under the dome of a building, under the dome of the sky. Perhaps you are sheltered in more ways than you had imagined.

What shelters you in ways that you tend to forget?