#contemplatingquotes

The fact is, everybody’s future is unknown, and unpredictable.

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing — too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person’s capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart is unfulfilled.

It is said the sun is roughly about 109 times as big as the earth and about one million earths could fit inside the sun. It may be the biggest thing in this neighborhood, but the sun is just average when compared to certain other stars in this universe. Hence, if this is about the size of one star, see how many planets and stars are in the sky! And how your eyes see them as though them being very small. The most astonishing thing is that when you enter a house of a rich man decorated with gold, you do not stop astonishing it and still remember it. On the other hand; you look at this great house and do not ponder on the construction of your Creator! You forgot yourself and your Lord and became busy with your stomach and private parts. Actually; you, in your inattentiveness, are like an ant that gets out of her house that she built in the wall of the king’s palace and meets her sister to talk to her about her house and how she built it and what she gathered in it, while mentioning nothing about the palace of the king and its people! This is you; you know nothing about the Heavens except what equals to what the ant knows about the roof of your house.

Are you willing to let go of all you hold dear to grasp what is real?