Off in the nether lands, I heard a sound

Like the beating of heavenly wings

And deep in my brain, I can hear a refrain

Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love

And hymns filled with earthly delight

Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Dan Fogelberg, from Nether Lands

“It helps, putting my hands on a pot, on a broom, in a wash pail.

I tried painting, but it was easier to fly slicing potatoes.”

“One day He did not leave after kissing me.”

Rabia of Basra, an 8th century Sufi mystic and saint

“Since no one really knows about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.”

Rabia of Basra, an 8th century Islamic Sufi saint and poet