Blessed are the living souls.
Lailah Gifty Akita.
“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”
“Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!”
“Work while you have strength.”
“Do all the work you can while you still have strength.”
“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”
“Thank God for the strength to work.”
“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
“The living sinners on deadly ground.”
“The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.”
“The wonderful world!”
“But just because you bury something, that doesnt mean it stops existing.”
“What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;R...”