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A conversation with a mountain

In the name of Allah, the All Merciful, the All Compassionate

I am words, I can do incredible things.

I can help you be inspired.
I can help you be wise.
I can help you hope.

But my powers only take me so far.

I found that out the day I tried to visit the summit of a mountain so as to describe the beautiful view from up there.

Yet the mountain prevented me.

So I looked up at the mountain and I asked it:

“Why do you not permit me to visit the summit?”

The mountain stared back at me not uttering a word.

In frustration I tried again to climb the mountain yet found myself not being able to move.

I looked up at the silent mountain towering over me.

Then suddenly… I heard the silent mountain...

I am high and thus I am steep.
So you cannot reach me without blood, without sweat and without tears.
This is only the fair price.

Yet I am merely words.

alýntý; http://revolutionize-minds.blogspot.com