MazanderCast

Tabriz Jame Mosque/ Tabriz/ Iran

    Christinanity: “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is Love.”     Confucianism: “To love all men is the greatest benevolence.”     Buddhism: “Let a man cultivate towards the whole world a heart of Love.     Hinduism: “One can best worship the Lord through Love.”     Islam: “Love is this, that thou shouldst account thyself very little and God very great.”     Taoism: “Heaven arms with Love those it would not see destroyed.”     Sikhism: “God will regenerate those in whose hearts there is Love.”     Judaism: “Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thyself.”     Jainism: “The days are of most profit to him who acts in Love.”     Zoroastrianism: “Man is the beloved of the Lord and should Love him in return.”     Baha’i: “Love Me that I may love thee. If though lovest Me not, My love can no wise reach thee.”     Shinto: “Love is the representative of the Lord.”

Animals, monsters and a buraq from Persian miniatures.

Pro tip: if you want to know what a buraq is, do - under any circumstances - Google ‘human-headed horse’.

                                      What is the body? Endurance.                                           What is love? Gratitude.                              What is hidden in our chests? Laughter.                                         What else? Compassion.

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Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī  1207-1273

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I saw a picture of Lovecraft and couldn’t resist