Sow Flowers
Sow flowers so your surroundings become a garden
Don’t sow thorns; for they will prick your feetIf you shoot arrows at others,
Know that the same arrow will come back to hit you.Don’t dig a well in another’s path,
In case you come to the well’s edgeYou look at everyone with hungry eyes
But you will be first to become mere dirt.Humans are all one body,
Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.— Rahman Baba (translated from Pashtun to English)
Photo by Tariq Deenah (Warning: if you view his beautiful photo sets you will be confronted by a strong wish to visit Pakistan.)
If Pakistan were not so unstable and hostile, I would visit. But I have a double whammy against me: I’m an Indian-American.
Yes, and right now it would be terrible – the areas I would most like to see lie just beyond where all the fighting is.