I'm struggling with the language thing. I want to go into linguistics so I want to study French (which I know) and Arabic (I haven't a clue, but I should learn it anyways). Now I find out I need to take German or Spanish??? >.<.
I'm not praying or reading Qur'an as much as I should, either. I seem to go in fits and starts. I do it a lot, then I slack off, I feel guilty, then I do it and see the positive benefits...and then I slack off?
The answer about French is unfortunately probably YES you do need it. A lot of what is written about North-Africa is written in French, and some in Spanish because of the colonies there. (Algeria, Morocco, Cote d'Ivoire to name a few of the many places where French is still the main European langauge spoken)
It is difficult to maintain spiritual practice... but it is necessary. I have noticed this myself lately. Do you remember my arrogant whole faith? It is long gone. In its place there is often emptiness, but not when I remember to maintain. Faith is a discovery. I keep forgetting.
Hello hello Now that I've talked to folks from Yale and UNC, I'm more comfortable with just good German: they emphasize reading primary sources over secondary. My Arabic is going to get stretched but it's the most important thing.
Faith in each moment, faith in the small reminders. Awareness of the most high in that pencil point, in the shape of the monitor and the feel of the keys, everything reminds and is itself that of which one is reminded...
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I'm not praying or reading Qur'an as much as I should, either. I seem to go in fits and starts. I do it a lot, then I slack off, I feel guilty, then I do it and see the positive benefits...and then I slack off?
I really don't understand myself sometimes.
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It is difficult to maintain spiritual practice... but it is necessary. I have noticed this myself lately. Do you remember my arrogant whole faith? It is long gone. In its place there is often emptiness, but not when I remember to maintain. Faith is a discovery. I keep forgetting.
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Now that I've talked to folks from Yale and UNC, I'm more comfortable with just good German: they emphasize reading primary sources over secondary. My Arabic is going to get stretched but it's the most important thing.
Faith in each moment, faith in the small reminders. Awareness of the most high in that pencil point, in the shape of the monitor and the feel of the keys, everything reminds and is itself that of which one is reminded...
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