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“Until Islam stops fixating on the afterlife, until it is liberated from the seductive story of life after death, until it actively chooses life on earth and stops valuing death, Muslims themselves cannot get on with the business of living in this world. Perhaps”
― Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
― Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
“just imagine!” I ejaculated.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir.”
― The Last Enchantment
― The Last Enchantment
“In his article, Bogen concluded: “I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . .”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
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