"Sing, for faith and hope are high ...."

Sing, for faith and hope are high – none so true as you and I – sing the Lovers’ Litany: “Love like ours can never die!”

Rudyard Kipling

"When you do things from your soul ...."

When you do things from your soul,

     you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When actions come from another section,

     the feeling disappears.

Don’t let others lead you.

They may be blind, or worse, vultures,

Reach for the rope of God.

Rumi

"What am I after all but a child ...."

What am I after all but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand  apart to hear - it never tires me.

To you your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three
pronunciations in the sound of your name?

Walt Whitman

"Allah gives light in darkness ...."

Allah gives light in darkness,
Allah gives rest in pain,
Cheeks that are white with weeping
Allah paints red again.

The flowers and the blossoms wither,
Years vanish with flying fleet;
But my heart will live on forever,
That here in sadness beat.

Gladly to Allah's dwelling
Yonder would I take flight;
There will the darkness vanish,
There will my eyes have sight.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Stranger, if you passing meet me ...."

“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?

And why should I not speak to you?”