Give It A Try

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

Peace Begins with A Smile

“Peace begins with a smile.”

― Mother Teresa

Blessing and Lesson

“Some people come in our life as blessings. Others come in our life as lessons.”
― Mother Teresa

Break Time

“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.”

― Robert Tew

True Colors

“Once someone shows you their true colors, there is no reason to believe the are going to change and do something different. People are who they are.”

― Charles Orlando

Meditation

“The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one.”

― Christopher L. Bennett

Intuition

“Intuition is the intelligence of the heart and the knowledge of the soul. It knows instantly and constantly what can take decades of experience for the mind to logically sort out and understand. Trust it, and the reason will follow in time.”

― Doe Zantama

Good Friends

“Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them. Your smile, your hope, and your courage.”

― Doe Zantamata

Think Too Much and Feel Too Little

“We think too much and feel too little.”

― Charlie Chaplin

Compassion and Passion

“When the sacred masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the ‘sacred marriage’ of compassion and passion in ourselves.”

― Matthew Fox

Balance

“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”

― Keith Urban

Menempatkan Pada Tempatnya

“Psikologi sufi tentang hati adalah psikologi spiritual yang sangat dalam. Ia tidak mengabaikan kecenderungan negatif yang kita miliki, tapi menempatkan pada tempatnya.”

― Robert Frager

Kebatilan Berbungkus Agama

“Kalau kamu ingin menguasai orang-orang bodoh, bungkuslah sesuatu yang batil dengan kemasan agama.”

― Ibnu Rusyd

An Ambassador of Healing

“In a world full of so much pain, be an ambassador of healing.”

― Amjad Tarsin

Improvement

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”

― Ralph Marston

Love

“When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love.”

― Lana Del Rey

Thought and Love

“It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the Law of Attraction.”

― Charles Haanel

Learn, Laugh, and Love

“We are never too old to learn, to laugh, or to love.”

― Jane Changes

Be Yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

― Oscar Wilde

Experience

“Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.”

― Oscar Wilde

Cinta dan Ilmu

Cinta dan ilmu adalah dua sayap dari burung jiwa yang sama.
Peralatan cinta ialah hati, peralatan ilmu akal.
Karena yang satu kita bisa terbang ke angkasa.
Dengan yang lain kita merasa tak asing di dunia.
Dengan cinta kita menggapai Tuhan dan kemanusiaan.
Dengan ilmu kita membangun masyarakat.
Dan menyingkap perkara-perkara pelik kehidupan di dunia.

― Abdul Hadi W. M.

Management and Leadership

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

― Stephen R. Covey

Passion and Money

“To be driven by passion is more likely to bring success than to be driven by money. It's an unrealistic notion that money makes you happy.”

― Carolyn Creswell

Passion

“If you are driven by passion you won't give up, no matter how long the journey, and you keep learning constantly.”

― Ekaterina Walter

Try and Try

“You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.”

― Beverly Sills

Let's Sail Out to Sea!

“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.”

― Grace Hopper

Fail, Wrong, and Start Again

“We have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.”

― Angela Lee Duckworth

Kesempitan Berpikir

“Kenapa sekarang banyak kaum takfiri di Indonesia yang senang mengkafir-kafirkan sesama muslim? Karena memang ada kekuatan-kekuatan dari luar yang mendesain seperti itu. Mereka itu takut berhadap-hadapan dengan rakyat Indonesia. Maka mereka bisanya masuk dengan menunggangi regulasi, perundang-undangan, dan yang pasti: menunggangi kesempitan berpikir kita!”

― Emha Ainun Nadjib

Hikmah dan Perut yang Kosong

Rasulullah SAW bersabda “Hati bisa menyimpan hikmah ketika perut kosong dan akan menolaknya ketika perut penuh.”

Spiritualitas

“Spiritualitas mendatangkan kesadaran bahwa alam semesta menyimpan banyak misteri yang tidak bisa dipahami dengan rasionalitas semata, tak bisa hanya menggunakan, seperti kata Rumi, ‘kaki yang terbuat dari kayu.’”

― Haidar Bagir

Keadilan

Rasulullah SAW berkata, “Sesungguhnya keadilan adalah timbangan Allah SWT dibumi ini, barang siapa yang mengambilnya maka Allah menuntunnya ke surga dan barang siapa yang meninggalkannya maka Allah menjerumuskannya ke neraka.” (Mustadrak Al Wasail: Juz 11: 317)

Penderitaan dan Kebahagiaan

“Kebahagiaan datang ketika penderitaan tidak lagi dirasakan sebagai penderitaan dan ketika kebebasan tidak lagi memperbudak kita sebagaimana paksaan luluh tidak lagi dirasakan sebagai paksaan.”

― Abdul Hadi W.M.

Jiwa yang Rendah

“Hawa nafsu adalah jiwa rendah kita yang memperbudak manusia dengan cara memuliakan kepentingan jasmani di atas kepentingan ruhani.”

― Abdul Hadi W.M.

Butterfly Effect

Even the smallest thing which we consider unimportant can make a huge difference in the world.

Iman dan Kehormatan

“Jika imanmu kuat, gangguan apapun terhadapmu tak akan menggoyahkan keyakinanmu itu. Jika puasamu benar dan karena Allah, tawaran makanan seenak apapun ke hadapanmu, tak akan mengganggumu, makanan itu tak akan kau ambil. Dengan begitu dirimu menjadi terhormat. Kehormatan itu dari dan karena dirimu sendiri, bukan dari dan karena orang lain.”

― K.H. Husein Muhammad

Agama

“Agama hadir untuk dipeluk karena pemahaman dan ketulusan, bukan karena kepasrahan dalam ketakutan, keterpaksaan, atau keengganan.”

― K.H. Husein Muhammad

Life

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

― Dalai Lama

A Door of Opportunity

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

― Milton Berle

Nothing Is Impossible

“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”

― Deepak Chopra

Burn Yourself

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Man and Trials

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Spiritualitas dan Cinta

“Spiritualitas itu sekali lagi adalah cinta, asal dari segala eksistensi, yang di dalamnya terhimpun segala kebaikan, keadilan, kebersamaan, kearifan dan kasih sayang.”

― K.H. Husein Muhammad

Keberanian dan Kesabaran

“Kalau Anda berani, Anda akan mencapai yang besar. Dan kalau Anda berani dan sabar, Anda akan mencapai yang tadinya tidak mungkin.”

― Mario Teguh

Anger

“Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

― Buddha

Make My Days Better

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

― Henry David Thoreau

The Illusion of Knowledge

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

― Stephen Hawking

Think Over and Over

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Right Direction

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.”

― Naeem Callaway

Inferno of Passion

“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”

― Carl Jung

Need and Greed

“Whether you have a Maruti or a BMW, the road remains the same. Whether you travel economy class or business, your destination doesn’t change. Whether you have a Titan or a Rolex, the time is the same. There is nothing wrong in dreaming a luxurious life. What needs to be taken care of is not let the need become greed. Because needs can always be met, but greed can never be fulfilled.”

― Thalaivar Rajinikanth

Think and Be

“You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.”

― Marianne Williamson

Mengalahkan Nafsu

“Nafsumu jika tidak engkau sibukkan dengan kebenaran, niscaya akan menyibukkanmu dengan kebatilan.”

― Imam Ali a.s.

Keyakinan dalam Diri

“Ketika Anda masih muda, Anda mendengar bahwa Anda tidak memiliki pengalaman untuk melakukan banyak hal, bahwa ada orang yang lebih berpengalaman dari Anda. Dan hal yang paling penting adalah hanya memiliki keyakinan dalam diri dan percaya pada diri sendiri. Saya memulai Facebook ketika saya masih 19 tahun.”

― Mark Zuckerberg

The Branches and Roots

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

― Jalaluddin Rumi

You Cannot Teach A Man Anything

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”

― Galileo Galilei

Sing, Climb, and Dance

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

― Khalil Gibran

Educating Mind and Heart

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

― Aristotle

The Heart

“The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”

― Hafiz Shirazi

The Mystery of Human Existance

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Most Beautiful Strike

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

― Sigmund Freud

10/90

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

― Lou Holtz

The Well Is Inside You

“Enlightenment, joy, and peace can never be given to you by another. The well is inside you.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh

Do It Now

“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.”

― Paulo Coelho

Love

“The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called love. No prescription is required.”

― Paulo Coelho

Happiness Is The Path

“There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path.”

― Dan Millman

Live in The Present

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Doa untuk Anak Cucu

W. S. Rendra ― Doa untuk Anak Cucu

Bismillaahir rahmaanir rahiim

Ya, Allah.
Di dalam masa yang sulit ini,
di dalam ketenangan
yang beku dan tegang,
di dalam kejenuhan
yang bisa meledak menjadi keedanan,
aku merasa ada muslihat
yang tak jelas juntrungannya.
Ya, Allah.
Aku bersujud kepada-Mu.
Lindungilah anak cucuku.

Lindungilah mereka
dari kesabaran
yang menjelma menjadi kelesuan,
dari rasa tak berdaya
yang kehilangan cita-cita.

Ya, Allah.
Demi ketegasan mengambil risiko
ada bangsa yang di-mesin-kan
atau di-zombie-kan.
Ada juga yang di-fosil-kan
atau di-antik-kan.
Uang kertas menjadi topi
bagi kepala yang berisi jerami.
Reaktor nuklir menjadi tempat ibadah
di mana bersujud kepala-kepala hampa
yang disumpal bantal tua.
Kemakmuran lebih dihargai
dari kesejahteraan.
Dan kekuasaan
menggantikan kebenaran.
Ya, Allah.
Lindungilah anak cucuku.

Lindungilah mereka
dari berhala janji-janji,
dari hiburan yang dikeramatkan,
dari iklan yang dimythoskan,
dan dari sikap mata gelap
yang diserap tulang kosong.

Ya, Allah.
Seorang anak muda
bertanya kepada temannya:
“Ke mana kita pergi?”
Dan temannya menjawab:
“Ke mana saja.
Asal jangan berpikir untuk pulang.”
Daging tidak punya tulang
untuk bertaut.
Angin bertiup
menerbangkan catatan alamat.
Dan rambu-rambu di jalan
sudah dirusak orang.
Ya, Allah.
Lindungilah anak cucuku.

Lindungilah mereka
dari kejahatan lelucon
tentang Chernobyl dan Hirosima,
dari heroin
yang diserap lewat ciuman,
dari iktikad buruk
yang dibungkus kertas kado,
dan dari ancaman tanpa makna.

Ya, Allah.
Kami dengan cemas menunggu
kedatangan burung dara
yang membawa ranting zaitun.
Di kaki bianglala
Leluhur kami bersujud dan berdoa.
Isinya persis seperti doaku ini.
Lindungilah anak cucuku.
Lindungilah daya hidup mereka.
Lindungilah daya cipta mereka.
Ya, Allah, satu-satunya Tuhan kami.
Sumber dari hidup kami ini.
Kuasa Yang Tanpa Tandingan.
Tak ada samanya
di seluruh semesta raya.
Allah! Allah! Allah! Allah!

Kangen

W. S. Rendra ― Kangen

Kau tak akan mengerti bagaimana kesepianku
menghadapi kemerdekaan tanpa cinta
kau tak akan mengerti segala lukaku
kerna cinta telah sembunyikan pisaunya.
Membayangkan wajahmu adalah siksa.
Kesepian adalah ketakutan dalam kelumpuhan.
Engkau telah menjadi racun bagi darahku.
Apabila aku dalam kangen dan sepi
itulah berarti
aku tungku tanpa api.

Be Realistic

“Be realistic: always wish the impossible.”

― Paulo Coelho

Ilmu dan Cahaya

Imam Ja'far As Shadiq a.s. berkata, “Ilmu tidak digapai melalui pembelajaran, sebaliknya ia adalah cahaya yang menyinari ke dalam hati seorang yang mana Allah SWT kehendaki untuk membimbingnya.”

Jika Bicara Menjadi Sia-Sia

“Jika bicara akan menjadi sia-sia, maka diam adalah jawabannya.” Imam Ali a.s.

Akal dan Nafsu

Imam Ali a.s. berkata, “Betapa banyak orang berakal yang tertawan dibawah kendali hawa nafsunya.”

Keberanian

“Dalam hidup kita, cuma satu yang kita punya, yaitu keberanian. Kalau tidak punya itu, lantas apa harga hidup kita ini.”

― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Character and Faith

“As water drops make a river, thoughts make character and faith.”

― Imam Ali a.s.

Optimist and Pessimist

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.”

― Khalil Gibran

Travel with The Mind

“A good traveler is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”

― Michael Bassey Johnson

The Way You Carry It

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

― Lou Holtz

Mind

“You  need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert

Dalam Mengajak Kebaikan

“Dalam mengajak kebaikan, bersikap keraslah kepada diri sendiri dan lemah-lembutlah kepada orang lain. Jangan sebaliknya.”

― K.H. A. Mustofa Bisri

Power Over Your Mind

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

― Marcus Aurelius

Words

“Words can inspire, and words can destroy. Choose yours well.”

― Robin Sharma