"Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide."

-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

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“My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.”
“Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.
“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.”
“Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.”

Source : Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books
“Pretty much whoever wins the tournament at the end of the week is the guy that putted probably the best.”
“You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn't exist.”
“When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.”

Source : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
“Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private.”

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