Some lines from pages fifteen and sixteen of Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Tehranī’s Kernel of the Kernel: Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual Journey of the People of Intellect (Risāla-yi Lubb al-Lubāb dar Sayr wa Sulūk Uluʾl Albāb)
These thoughts and preoccupations hinder the traveler’s wayfaring
and take away his serenity and peace of mind. When he wants to take repose in the remembrance of God for a short while, they besiege him like a deluge and threaten his whole being.
The Cynic
Written February 1, 2013
The cynic reemerges from his embryo,
Re-born.
Is this blood on my hands?
Or just ink?
Does it matter?
Is there a difference? Continue reading
Adamic Clay
Written August 2, 2013
Hope, not yet
in rigor mortis
I see black clouds
billowing over this dead desert plain
Ominous? Or Life? Continue reading
—Our smokestacks and financial towers reach higher than our steeples and minarets.
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Mirages and Reality
written November 2, 2013
“I seem to have been born with an aptitude for a way of life that was doomed…”
|Wendell Berry
And…yet it is this doom that sustains me.
I’ve failed so miserably over the years
ebbs and flows
but I’m becoming
more focused Continue reading
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