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"Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, overlapping bursts.."

Overcooked meat - fat, protein, and sugar molecules tangled and fused; tough to chew and digest; so many essential nutrients ruined. When heat kills nutrients, it does so by causing reactions between nutrients, forming new compounds including known carcinogens, and molecular fusions that damage kidney and blood vessels.

"Yanking certain components from living systems—as we do to make flour, sugar, protein slurries, and 90 percent of what's now for sale in the store—and expecting them to approximate their original nutritional value is like removing someone's brain from their body and expecting them to respond to questions. That is not science; it is science fiction. So is the idea that heavily processed food can be healthy."

Why not vitamin pills? - only small fraction of naturally occurring isomers of a particular vitamin can be recreated - synthetic vitamins produce byproducts with unknown effects - without proper balance of carrier nutrients, vitamins aren't absorbed - pills could include toxic compounds & in many cases are unregulated Still, there is benefit in taking vitamin pills as our current food supply is bereft of nutrients.

"Every curve of our features is sculpted towards nature's tendency towards perfection. Our minds, too, are tuned by the ratio of phi, and so we desire dynamic symmetry, and pursue it..."

"Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man's symbolic activity advances. Instead of dealing with the things themselves man is in a sense constantly conversing with himself. He has so enveloped himself in linguistic forms, in artistic images, in mythical symbols or religious rites that he cannot see or know anything except by the interposition of [an] artificial medium." – Ernst Cassirer

"The beings that He Most High has created are the sites of manifestation (madhahir) of His Names.."

"1) a rejection of foundations or origins that are held to be given naturally, inevitably or universally.
2) a rejection of realism, namely, the thesis that language, when used properly, can tell us the truth about reality.
3) a rejection of humanism: man, considered as the subject and object of knowledge, is no longer held to be sovereign but is regarded as an effect of desires or discourses or power systems."

"...ancient jurists foresaw every
possible future problem? Of course not, ... but we can study their methodologies, repeat their effort, and derive Islamic rules and regulations to address our current circumstances ... but the farther we move away from the Qur'an, the greater our dependence on human choices and judgments, which, it seems, are bound to differ and to include errors.."

Loving it so far..

"The very first thing a Sufi as a man of religious learning knows is that the shari'a and 'aqida of Islam are above every human being. Whoever does not know this will never be a Sufi, except in the Orientalist sense of the word—"

"I reflected on my intention in public teaching,& I saw that it was not directed purely to God, but rather was instigated & motivated by the quest for fame & widespread prestige..I became certain that I was on the brink of a crumbling bank..Mundane desires begun tugging me with their chains to remain as I was, while the herald of faith was crying out..If you do not prepare now for the afterlife, when will you do so?"

"Ascertainment by apodeictic proof leads to knowledge. Intimate experience of that very state is fruitional experience. Favorable acceptance of it based on hearsay and experience of others is faith."

"The tariqa is a deepening of faith, a putting of things in their true perspective until eternal truths are more palpable than the transient world around one."