“إن الحال التي نمر بها اليوم، لهي أسوأ بكثير جدا، بل بما لا يقاس، من تلك الحالة التي كنا عليها زمن طه حسين ومحاكمته، أيامها كان صوت العقل هو الأعلى والأكثر سيادة، وصوت التخلف والجمود يثير الضجيج؛ قلة قليلة من ذوي النفوذ في المجتمع شعروا بأن النهضة الثقافية الناضجة العارمة لن تكون أبدا في صالحهم، لأنهم لا ثراء ولا سيادة لهم إلا في محيط من الجهل والفقر يمتطونه إلى الأبد. وعن طريق ممثليهم في البرلمان وفي الجامعة وفي القصر وفي كل مكان دأبوا على إثارة القلاقل وافتعال الخصومات والفتن لتعطيل نيران الثقافة عن مواصلة اشتعالها. صنوف من العسف والطغيات لقيها العلماء والمفكرون والأدباء والشعراء والفنانون، من زبانية الجحيم الذين يتذرعون بالدين ويقحمون اسم الله في كل صغيرة وكبيرة كأنهم المفوضون من الله سبحانه وتعالى حراسا على الدين بتوكيل رسمي.”
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“إن الصدفة هي نتاج لحركة قانون غير مرئي لنا .فإذا كنا نضع القوانين طبقا لما نعنيه وندركه من الحقائق الحياتية فإن ثمة قانون أعلى وأشمل
أي اننا في النهاية جزيء ربما كان تافها من قانون غير مرئي يقوم على العدالة المطلقة”
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أي اننا في النهاية جزيء ربما كان تافها من قانون غير مرئي يقوم على العدالة المطلقة”
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“أنت تؤمن بالمثل القائل عن بلدنا إنها بلد بتاعة شهادات وأنا أحب أن أرى من ألف هذا المثل الكاذب لأضربه جزمتين على بوزه !! نحن بلد لا قيمة للشهادات فيها حتى شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله يقولونها برو عتب !!”
― وكالة عطية
― وكالة عطية
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.
You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.
At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.
You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.
There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.
At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.”
― A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
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