Picture of the Damascus Rose from the book “Beautiful Roses Made Easy” by Teri Dunn & Walter Reeves
The history of St. Paul’s where Salma and her sisters went to school in Damascus, Syria (College Patriarchal)
The Christian Catholic nun teachers from Salma’s school, St. Paul’s in Damascus, Syria
(notice the Buddha on the shelf to the right)
Teacher nuns and classmates hiking Mount Sennin in Lebanon (Salma is right center in black with a hat)
Salma and her sister visiting two of her nun teachers in Lebanon in 2010
Salma and her sister visiting her summer school in 2010 in Lebanon
Salma playing the role of the Blessed Mary at St. Paul’s school
Salma receiving an academic award for excellence in Damascus, Syria
Salma with her fellow traveler Jaguar
Activist women of the Red Crescent in 1920 Damascus, Syria (women achieved the right to vote in 1949)
A gorgeous old home in Damascus, Syria
Baba, Dr. Alamy (center front), Director of the Clinic in Syria, with doctors and nurses
Baba, Dr. Alamy, a medical doctor in the Army
My baba Dr. Alamy (holding the hat) with medical colleagues in Boston USA
Salma, 9mos old, with her favorite toy elephant
Salma’s Mama (with glasses), Lamaa Al Ghazzi, taking young ladies to vote in the election in Damascus, Syria
Salma joining in celebration of her friend’s birthday during her last visit to her country of birth, Damascus, Syria, also known as Ashtar, Venus Queen
My beloved Mama
Before her death, she said to me, “Don’t be afraid, go, study for your history exam.
I am okay.”
I love you, Mama
My papa Dr. Alamy on the Queen Mary returning to Damascus, Syria
Salma’s mother Lamaa (meaning Sparkling Light) after Salma’s birth in her grandparents’ bed in Damascus
Salma’s father, Dr. Haleem (meaning “clement”) Alamy, at the medical camp
Salma (meaning Peaceful and Safe) and her Mama
Dear friend Sitan with Salma and Salam in Knoxville
With British and Spanish friends.
Sitan and Salma took photography classes at the University of Tennessee in 1991
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt signing guest book at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria March 1953
Aleppo, Syria 1959
After ballet classes at school
Damascus Syria 1920
Beirut, Lebanon 1956
Salam and Salma in the office in Spain
Thank you for the nobility of your heart! You are a blessing
Celebrating birthday with The Miracles friends
Love Is All There Is!
Ecole St. Vincent de Paul Baskinta
Helen Keller visiting museum in Damascus, Syria 1952
Salma’s father in Spain
The esteemed and inspirational Peace Pilgrim, born Mildred Lisette Norman. Thank you for showing us the way!
Salma with Richard Pax, a teacher of A Course In Miracles
Thank you dear friends for your light kindness and love
Salma with the dearest Rosemond and Roland Kees, her partner and friend Gary’s lovely mother and father.
Salma singing at a workshop in New Jersey, “Love fills the moment, and the moment begins eternity. Love fills a lifetime, and a lifetime begins this moment.”
Salam Aboush and Salma Alami in Beirut, Lebanon
Birthday wishes from my Friends. Since 1986, Ada and Harold and family. Thank you!
With dear friends Ada and Harold Julian
Salma with Gary and his family, Mary and Joe
Salma volunteering at Fort Sanders Hospital
Syrian women at the international fair in Damascus, Syria 1958
With friends at the medical assistant class
Syrian women and men in the House of Hospitality in Damascus, Syria
With love at our home in Spain
Our last Home in Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. Thank you!
Salma in Knoxville 1987
Christian Orthodox nuns in Syria
Syrian women Damascus 1947
Salma, initiated in Kriya Yoga by Swami Paramahamsa Hariharananda Giri
The amazing Amma for Peace meeting at the Vatican with the Pope and many religious leaders
Barbara Rose and Salma Light, a privileged friendship since 1988. Thank you, Barbara Rose, for all your loving kindness and your beautiful open heart. Our friendship is a blessing.
Salma in Switzerland at 18 years old
Blessed Irish immigrants
Salma and her friends strolled down the street in the summer breeze of rose and yasmine in Damascus, Syria
Christian Church in Damascus, Syria
Synagogue in Syria
Monastery in Syria
Omayad Mosque in Damascus, Syria
The beautiful Beirut Lebanon 1965
Salma (in red) with friends performing folk dances
Salma and Marybeth give thanks for everything! Our friendship is a privilege and a gift from the Divine that speaks to our heart and soul.
Salma as an illusory creation by the Professor of the Art in Damascus, Syria
John the Baptist Shrine inside the Omayad Mosque
Syrian family from Damascus 1940
Salma in India
Freedom
Gratitude
Memory in Knoxville
Salam and Salma in Switzerland
Happiness and Gratitude – I miss your lovely smile
Salma Switzerland
Colette Khoury is a famous Christian Syrian poet, writer and dear family friend. Colette’s grandfather Fares Al Khoury was a Prime Minister of Syria.
A dear friend of our family speaks on the funeral of the great Dr. Isaac Totah, Mahat Farah al-Khoury. was our neighbor in Damascus, Syria.
Our dear matriarch Evelyn Sharp at Unity Church in Knoxville
Salma with dear friend Bobby Drinnon. Thank you for the spiritual richness you offer everyone.
Three year old Salma asking, “Where Am I?”
5 Syrian lira when Syria was called Syrian Republic
Villas Salma in Spain (Aboush & Co)
Salma and Baba in Egypt
Old luxurious Syrian home
Roman Gate in Damascus, Syria via recta near my school St. Paul’s and my mother’s school
St. Paul Church in Damascus Syria, near Salma’s school where she was taught by Catholic nuns
Street in Damascus Syria 1950
Water Giver in Mousul, Iraq
Beautiful view of Mousul, Iraq
A view of the city of Bagdad, Iraq
Ishtar Gate Babylon, Iraq
Street in Baghdad Iraq 1952
Mosque in Bagdad, Iraq
Great Mosque of Sammara, Iraq
Fishermen in Mousul, Iraq
Cathedral in Bagdad, Iraq
Salam, in the middle on a camel, with friends
Tramway in Damascus 1949
Salma and her friend The Tree, at her grandparents home
My last visit to the Road to Damascus with my friend after we visited the International Fair. A deep sadness touched my heart, but a spiritual knowing came to my mind that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is protecting this country, and He is everywhere, and He is in us.
Happy memories at The Orangery in Knoxville
Salma playing the role of Faith at school
One who surrenders and trusts lives in a blissful ocean of love
Salam taking care of Salma at London Hospital
Bioenergy
Salma with Phyllis Furumoto, the granddaughter of the great Reiki Master Mrs Takata
Karuna Reiki
Dr Segar, his wife Tonya, and Salma teaching the nurses Reiki and energy modalities at the medical house in Jackson- Mississippi
Healing Touch
Healing Touch
The Healing Room of Light
Healing Touch in Hospice
Quantum Touch
Salma volunteering at Hospice
Beauty Blossoms Always!
Celebration of friendship since 1987. Anna, you are a dear soul and have a beautiful pure heart. Thank you for walking this path of awakening with me.
I love visiting this sacred land. I feel at home listening, immersing my soul in the Wisdom of their legends, remembering that I am walking on a Holy ground.
With my first friend, Holy (Pam Hurst) of A Course in Miracles, and her son competing in Nashville
Testimony of our beautiful friendship on this spiritual journey of wisdom and love. This friendship is bound with grace through eternity. I am very appreciative. I love you always.
Salma, Saundra, Zipira, and Marilyn

Dearest Saundra, When I am with you I sit in the company of saints, connected with the purity of your soul. We communicate through the splendor of the Christ.
With two dear friend students at Christmas 1990
Happy thanksgiving!
Laxmi and Gayatri
New birth! Salma with dear friend Marybeth. Your miraculous patience and encouragement is a blessing. I am grateful for our privileged friendship. Thank you.
Friends are like sisters! Salma with Shanti and Shekhinah
Solidarity is our strength

I see the moon; it doesn’t need to be full. I see the moon; it doesn’t need to rise. -Rumi
With gratitude to Felicia for all the memories and all the experiences we shared together. Your gentle understanding is a true blessing. We have been together before.
You and I recited a prayer and we were gifted its fruit by our Creator.
To be ourselves is beautiful and peaceful.
Salma playing the role of Mother Mary at her Catholic School on the Day of the Assumption. Beside her, the Angel Gabriel.
The opening of the Spheres of Consciousness
Salma, God protect her!
Life and Love and Peace are Inseparable from Each Other – Love pervades the Universe and is Eternal
The fabric of the heart is pure light
Life is Beautiful! We dwell in Infinite Source, an abundant ocean of Love
The greater power, the Supreme, is immeasurable, The Ultimate reality cannot be grasped.
Blessed Mother Mary
The Rose is Always Blooming!
The gentle rose offers a powerful joy known only to the heart. –Andrew Pacholyk
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. -Salma
My beloved husband Salam at London Hospital
Merry Christmas, Joyeux Noel!
It is Thanksgiving and the month of my birth, which reminds me to be thankful all the time. It also reminds me to remember my beloved parents, my children and their wives, my grandchildren and all of my family, and my Damascus, the city of my birth, with honor and deep appreciation. Thank you to all my friends here and gone for sharing their graceful presence, which helped me to sail through this life in Knoxville, Tennessee. I am absolutely grateful!! We are One.
~ Salma Light Al Alami
November 22, 2020
Salma and dear friend Joyce Petrak
Divinely Protected, by my dear friend and artist Barbara & Light
A Blessed Time!
Happy times with family and friends in Spain
Be gentle with my heart.
We don’t find love, it finds us by tracing the secret maps of our souls.
– Jose Chaves
Love one another as I have loved you!
Be kind to your sleeping heart and let it breathe!
Salma and Gary
“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened.”
(quote by Henry Scott-Holland)
Salma visiting Damacus, Syria in 1970

I came to the truth of my heart, the temple of the Splendor of the Divine.
Salma with two great men she respects, honors and cherishes.
“Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. It simply means I will miss you until we meet again.”
(quote by Lawrence Kushner)
Salma (1989) on a boat.
Ahimsa “Do No Harm”
“We participate is a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.”
(quote by Lawrence Kushner)
Peace to all!
The venerable Geshe Dadul Namgyal, an aspiring Tibetan Buddhist and scholar whom Salma met at the Lotus Light Center in 2019.
Salma and her Persian friends are open and receptive to Divine Guidance.
Salma going camping with her school in the summer with her friend May and the cook Mrs. Helen.
We are blessed with the strength of the Divine.
We had a great time!
Messengers of Love and Peace!
Let the Angel dance and sing!
“I laugh and laugh-I don’t know why. Only God knows why the stem of a flower quivers in the morning breeze.” -Rumi
Resurrection of the Heart
Salma Starlight
The heart’s journey. Looking at my life, I see that love and peace are my companions.
Y Viva Espana mi Amor! Ole! for all the lovely memories with my dear family.
“Life is but a stopping place, a pause in what’s to be, a resting place along the road, to sweet eternity. Our destination is a place far greater than we know. And when the journey finally ends, we’ll claim a great reward, and find an everlasting peace together with the Lord.”
-Author Unknown
Salma and Helen.
The grace of God is blessing us.
Salma with Marcia and Fred Martinson (2015)
Angels of the ecstatic dance movement.
Salma (left) with her Krya yoga group (1990)
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –Confusius
Cousin of my mother and a Damascus, Syria broadcast reporter
University of Damascus, Syria (1958)
Peace Builders
I am so grateful for the work of the Peace Builders, who come from many places to do good work.
We are all divinely protected.
I love you. The Grace of God be with you.
I love you. The Grace of God be with you.
Susan, I am grateful for the love and kindness and beautiful hearts of you and your dear mother, Jean.

The poet Rumi said, “Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with.”
To My Beloved Family and My Beloved Children and Grandchildren
Salma, remember that there are angels surrounding you all the time.
Just believe it!!!
“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.”
“Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
– Rumi
I am sustained by the Love of God.
Prime Minister Said al-Ghazzi (great uncle of my mother; front second from right) with visitors in Damascus in 1956
My beloved father Dr. Al Alami. Baba lived with us in Spain for six years. This picture was taken after his back surgery. He died gracefully at the age of 90.
Salma at Christmas time in Knoxville
Salma with her amazing aunt Sou al-Ghazzi in Spain
Dinner at Bravo with my Attitudinal Healing group from Oasis Institute celebrating life, who we are, and Christmas.
We are blessed!
Under the Tree of Life.
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
-Khalil Gibran
Salma with her dear, dear friends.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.”
“Faith is the knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
“God made truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.”
– Khalil Gibran
Salma with Gary, and his sister and her husband.
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”
-Khalil Gibran
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
-Khalil Gibran
My deepest appreciation for the sincerity of your kind heart and loving care for me, my children, their wives and my grandchildren.
We always remember you with great love!
Salma and her dear friend Faye
Salma With her Friends Mr Larry, Eloise, Gary and more
We all are like this precious newborn baby.
Salma and Salam hosting a dinner celebration for their dear friends and their children.
Salma and her tomatoes.

Oh Thou, loving Lord, thank you for your generosity!
The intuitive heart who knows
Oh dear Bird, you fly to me and sit upon my shoulder. You play and you play and you play! I feel I am in a land of dreams. I hear your song, singing to me the melody of Damascus and Mosul (the melody of Salma and Salam)! I hear the Symphony and the Voice of God saying, “Don’t worry, all is a dream. In reality you never left my heart. I am always singing to you the Song of the Eternal Love.”