The mind is nutrient soil, and inspiration is the rain that nurtures the seeds of our creativity, encouraging it to grow and cultivating our full potential. Personal growth begins with inspiration.

Join me in reflecting on a selection of voices that helped make me curious enough to become creative and guided my career trajectory.

“The sons of Adam (Human Beings) are limbs of each other,

When the calamity of time affects one limb

The other limbs cannot remain at rest.

If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others,

You are unworthy of claiming the name of a Human Being.” - Saadi Shirai

“Reason, says Love; you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are… Reason, you will always be half blind.” - Marguerite Porete

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”- Carl Jung

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him, there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.” — Frantz Fanon

“If we were men and you were women, we’d stop this crime. Spark the fire of war and kill the tyrant or be killed, or take to the wilderness and starve, for it is better to die honourably than live in shame.” — Afira Bint ‘Abbad