“The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.”
― The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
― The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.”
― Scar Tissue
― Scar Tissue
“every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”
― Lexicon
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”
― Lexicon
“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”
― Machine Man
― Machine Man
“Every true artist is at war with the world.”
― Scar Tissue
― Scar Tissue
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