Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Death is but a state of mind



“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ― Mark Twain

Cemeteries are quiet, peaceful and can be haven for the living. The photograph here was taken in Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal. Apart from being simple and beautiful, the cemetery is a "mixed" one as photographer Lies tells us: "Not only do Muslims and Christians lie side by side, but all families - regardless of their faith." Now that's an inspiration. And, as she rightly observed, they also have sacred baobab trees to watch over them.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Unconquerable Soul



Invictus - William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.