“Blessed eternity is lived in the love of the knowledge and the knowledge of the love”—F.G.
The road to union is not what we imagined;
The world of the soul is not as we thought.
The source from which Khidr drank the water of life
Is in our own home, but we have buried it.
Sadr al-Dīn Qūnawī (d.673/1273–74)
(An nîst rah-e vasl ke angâshte-îm vân nîst jâhân-e jân ke pandâshte-îm ân chesme ke Khezr khorde z-ou âb-e hayât dar khâne-ye mâst lîk anbâshte-îm.)
“Secularism inherits from imperial Christianity a fundamental impetus either to convert, to control, or to radically domesticate other epistemes. … " -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “SECULARISM AND RELIGION IN THE MODERN/ COLONIAL WORLD-SYSTEM,” 382
“The “spirit of conquest,” embedded within the inner existence of Westerners, “goes under the guise of ‘moralist’ pretexts, and it is in the name of ‘liberty’ that they would force the whole world to imitate them!” They “force everyone to interest themselves exclusively in what interests them, to put economic concerns above all, or to adopt the political regime which they happen to prefer. . . . And the most extraordinary thing is that they have similar pretensions not only with regard to the peoples that they have conquered, but also with regard to those among them,” - Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 159
“On economic policy Democrats are indistinguishable from Reagan-era Republicans. On foreign policy they're indistinguishable from Bush-era neocons. But they're still able to sell the idea that they're progressive…, by copious lip service to social justice.”
