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“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
—Marcus Aurelius
It’s impossible to exist in this world without losing a piece of yourself. I look at the way that my fingertips press to your cheeks like butterfly kisses and wish I was better at this. Everyday a human looses 40,000 dead skin cells, each afloat like ashes drifting off into a winter breeze. I find solace in the fact that some of this confeti of DNA has found home on your cheekbones like buried treasure. You’ve spent all day studying genetics so I wonder if you can tell me how long this will last. The helixes of our DNA intertwined across skin like satin ribbons, silky to the touch and yet so slippery.
Whenever your life goes a bit out of balance or you are approaching a new major stage in your life, shut yourself from the world completely and spend some time alone reflecting and re-organizing your plans, goals, thoughts, and priorities, while seeking help from Allah.
This is a technique that Prophets, the companions, and scholars have done in the past extensively (called Khulwah خلوة), and is one of the techniques recommended in many self help books today. Try it!
--Dr. Waleed Hakeem