Kafara Ya Quotes & Sayings

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty. — Bodhidharma

If there are tears on my cheeks, the hot fire eats them away. — Tessa Gratton

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother. — Liz Smith

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear. — Paul Kingsnorth

Sonnet V
I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place
patiently the river asks for its share of the drizzle
and, bit by bit, a tomorrow passing in poems approaches
so I carry faraway's land and it carries me on travel's road
On a mare made of your virtues, my soul weaves
a natural sky made of your shadows, one chrysalis at a time.
I am the son of what you do in the earth, son of my wounds
that have lit up the pomegranate blossoms in your closed-up gardens
Out of jasmine the night's blood streams white. Your perfume,
my weakness and your secret, follows me like a snakebite. And your hair
is a tent of wind autumn in color. I walk along with speech
to the last of the words a bedouin told a pair of doves
I palpate you as a violin palpates the silk of the faraway time
and around me and you sprouts the grass of an ancient place - anew — Mahmoud Darwish