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“In the fighting that we do, one time we fight over the wheat and all the other grains, another time over the livestock, and at other times over the vineyards. And so, on four occasions we fight over all the fruits of the earth and for those things won by the benandanti that year there is abundance.’ Thus, at the core of the nocturnal gatherings of the benandanti we see a fertility rite emerging that is precisely patterned on the principal events of the agricultural year.”
― The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
― The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
“K H A D I J A S A Y S . . .
In Kashmir when we wake up and say ‘Good Morning’ what we really mean is ‘Good Mourning’.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
In Kashmir when we wake up and say ‘Good Morning’ what we really mean is ‘Good Mourning’.”
― The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
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“Let all teachers of holiness, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, and all seekers after holiness, whether in the closet or the convention, take warning: There is no pride so dangerous, so subtle and insidious, as the pride of holiness. It is not that a man ever says, or even thinks, “Stay away. I am too sacred for you!” The thought would be considered ludicrous. But unconsciously there can develop a private habit of soul that feels complacency in its attainments and cannot help but see how far it is ahead of others.”
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
― Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness
“Islam, however inadequate, was the only source of ethics and stimulus for political mobilization. And al-Afghani also presciently saw that a totally secular society- the dream of nineteenth-century rationalism- was doomed to remain a fantasy in the West as well as in the Muslim world. As he concluded in his response to Renan:
The masses do not like reason, the teachings of which are understood only by a few select minds. Science, however fine it may be, cannot completely satisfy humanity’s thirst for the ideal, or the desire to soar in dark and distant regions that philosophers and scholars can neither see nor explore.”
― From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
The masses do not like reason, the teachings of which are understood only by a few select minds. Science, however fine it may be, cannot completely satisfy humanity’s thirst for the ideal, or the desire to soar in dark and distant regions that philosophers and scholars can neither see nor explore.”
― From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
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