Hakim Quotes
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.
Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.
In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water
The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.
Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.
The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.
My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.
Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.
It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.
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