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Eiman
is on page 110 of 216
‘It is no longer necessary, as it was in the days
of open and unashamed tyranny, to impose control in the teeth of hatred and opposition; this can now be done in the name of social morality and the public good. Secularism, the profane realm, has become both so all-embracing and so overweaning that the religious man might willingly stand aside and cultivate his modest garden in a quiet place.’
— May 01, 2023 06:49AM
of open and unashamed tyranny, to impose control in the teeth of hatred and opposition; this can now be done in the name of social morality and the public good. Secularism, the profane realm, has become both so all-embracing and so overweaning that the religious man might willingly stand aside and cultivate his modest garden in a quiet place.’
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Eiman
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'It is from a man's choice between sleeping and waking or between drifting with the tide and making his way upstream that the pattern of his destiny is built up. Here we stand, as creatures made for choosing, and we do not know, until the veils are lifted, how much depended on our choice.'
— Sep 17, 2024 04:34AM
Eiman
is finished
'It is from a man's choice between sleeping and waking or between drifting with the tide and making his way upstream that the pattern of his destiny is built up. Here we stand, as creatures made for choosing, and we do not know, until the veils are lifted, how much depended on our choice.'
— Sep 17, 2024 04:34AM
Eiman
is on page 215 of 216
'Every day is a good day to begin this work, but everyday provides its crop of reasons for delay and hesitation - we are busy, we have problems -and time passes. We behave, many of us, like senile old people who, when the house is on fire, mumble over small possessions, fuss and natter, while their end roars all about their ears.'
— Sep 17, 2024 04:33AM
Eiman
is on page 201 of 216
'The taking of refuge is from an imperfect world in which even heavenly fruit is worm-eaten and from a selfhood pitted and riddled with the same imperfection; and in this world the man who depends on his own strength, the self-reliant man, is inevitably a pathetic figure.'
— Sep 17, 2024 04:30AM
Eiman
is on page 155 of 216
'Those who regard as absurd the notion that a man could deserve supernatural punishment for some apparently trivial sin are right, so long as the situation is defined in this way. But it is not the sin that is punished, It is the profound inner warping which betrayed itself through this sin that stand revealed when time and obscurity are brought to an end.'
— Sep 17, 2024 04:28AM
Eiman
is on page 130 of 216
'Squatting in this place, this little pool, and hungry for certainties, people hold on with a kind of desperation to the current notion of what is (or what is not) 'rational'; and yet, 'the rationalism of a frog at the bottom of a well consists in denying the existance of mountains'; this is logic of a kind perhaps, but it has nothing to do with reality.'
— Sep 17, 2024 04:25AM
Eiman
is on page 114 of 216
'We do not need to seek occassions for action; they come to us, welcome or unwelcome, and their coming is a sufficient sign that they are our business.'
— Sep 07, 2024 11:12PM
Eiman
is on page 114 of 216
‘…but every man or woman born contains the possibility of being something infinitely more than a short-lived creature of this short-lived earth, just as a seed contains in virtuality a great tree. What we can be we must be, or fail utterly.’
— May 02, 2023 07:58AM
Eiman
is on page 62 of 216
The way I understood like 40% of the chapter on economy 🤡
— Oct 21, 2022 02:01AM
Eiman
is on page 44 of 216
‘For beauty to penetrate or for concentration to become stabilised, time and stillness are required.’
— Oct 17, 2022 04:05AM
