“The greatest threat to the world is not any specific faith, for faith is nature's anti-dote to misery. The greatest threat to the world is intolerance, regardless of its religious, non-religious, political or intellectual background.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to accept any crumbs of acceptance that were thrown my way.”
Source: Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
“I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that.”
Source: Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
“No togetherness, no tomorrow.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Assimilation is heaven, separation is hell - inclusion is life, discrimination is death - love is salvation, hate is damnation.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Do not be afraid of the closed doors. They are there to help you gain wisdom.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“People still get shot because of their color - people still get mistrusted because of their religion - people still get sneered at because of their gender and sexuality. Does this look like a civilized world? We may have the tangible brain capacity to build a civilized world, but we are not there yet, and we are not going to reach that destination any time soon. However, the work must begin now.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Come all ye who have no home, I'll be your home - come all ye who cannot speak, I'll be your voice - come all ye who cannot stand, I'll be your legs - come all ye oppressed, tormented and discriminated - hold my hand and together we'll build the world, the humane way this time.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Certainly, it is good for the personal self to have clear goals and a designated path to those goals. However, we work against fulfilling ourselves and our goals by having tunnel vision and insisting on the way we, at least, at the moment, want. Numerous ways are possible, many of which we will be unaware of until they materialize.”
Source: Love's Longing
“To fight is easy, but to create trust where there is none, that's the real challenge.”