on a quote from a book

I wish.. I really do.

on the perfect woman

Nasrudin was talking to a friend, who asked him:

‘Have you never considered getting married, Mullah?’

‘I have,’ replied Nasrudin. ‘In my youth, I resolved to find the perfect woman. I crossed the desert and reached Damascus, and I met a lovely, very spiritual woman, but she knew nothing of the world. I continued my journey and went to Isfahan; there I met a woman who knew both the spiritual and the material world, but she was not pretty. Then I decided to go to Cairo, where I dined in the house of a beautiful woman, who was both religious and a connoisseur of material reality.’

‘Why didn’t you marry her, then?’

‘Alas, my friend, she was looking for the perfect man.’

via

Posted using ShareThis

on simple things

I'm overwhelmed on how small the world is.

Gosh I'm a big fan!




Plurk!!!!

on my favorite book

This is my all time favorite book. It never fails to surprise me whenever a page is flipped. The book itself is a mystery, and it unravels the endless mysteries of the world as well. Perfectly written in such a way that it'll not only make you fall... it'll make you believe.



---------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I will not tell the story of the book for it might just ruin the magic that it could bring to an individual, although a story was told in the book that is somehow similar to the real story of the book itself.

from pp. 171 of the book

Before I closed my eyes, I began to hear my mother's voice. She was telling a story she had often told me when I was a child, not realizing it was a story about me.

" A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other," my mother's voice was saying." They decided to become engaged. And that's when presents are always exchanged."

"The boy was poor--- his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette."

"The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair.With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover."

"When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he had sold, and he gave ger the barrette for the hair she no longer had."

*sigh* the real story would make you feel ten times than what this story made you feel.


btw, here's an excerpt from the book that has somehow changed the way I deal with life and love...