Music Of The Silk Road

Bosnian Postcards

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (2016) - Official HD Trailer

Qiyan Music Of Al-Andalus

Music Of Persia And Armenia

Danza Sufi: On The Earth, Beneath The Sky, A Mortal Whirls Before The Divinity/-ies

New Agrarians

Back to the land.

Error

"One does not understand the essence of things through art and religion, although nearly everyone is of that opinion. Error has made man so deep, delicate, inventive as to bring forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge would have been incapable of it. Whoever revealed to us the essence of the world would disappoint us all most unpleasantly. It is not the world as a thing in itself, but the world as idea (as error) that is so rich in meaning, deep, wonderful, pregnant with happiness and unhappiness. This conclusion leads to a philosophy of the logical denial of the world, which, by the way, can be combined just as well with a practical affirmation of the world as with its opposite." ~ F. Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, remark 29.

Muhammad: A Revolutionary Life

Nothing is more infuriating to the revolutionary, or to the reformer even, than the complacency of the establishment: its assumption that good consists in its own continued existence and in that of its time-honoured habits, its unawareness of the dangers threatening the world it holds dear and its contempt for all warnings. It is against such people, who take their own strength for granted and who, having amassed great wealth, believe they can do just as they like regardless of anyone else, that the earliest revelations [of the Qur'an] are directed. ~ Maxime Rodinson, Muhammad, 84.

A Portrait Of The Dervish As A Dialectical Materialist

Br. Marx Muhammad, Urban Eremite. [Image: Bosnian artist Damir Niksic].

He Comes To Us As One Unknown

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, he came to those men who knew him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which he has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey him, whether they be wise or simple, he will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in his fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who he is. ~ Albert Schweitzer, The Quest.

Dialectical Materialism Rightly Understood

While we recognize that in the general development of history the material determines the mental and social being determines social consciousness, we also--and indeed must--recognize the reaction of mental on material things, of social consciousness on social being and of the superstructure on the economic base.

This does not go against materialism; on the contrary, it avoids mechanical materialism and firmly upholds dialectical materialism. ~ Mao Tsetung

Steeped In Solitude

The Way of Eremitic Arts and Tea.

Putting On The Suf

The Monastery Of St. Katherine, Mt.Sinai, Egypt

Be Persuaded Of This...

"In your heart be persuaded of this: it is impossible for a man to achieve good through evil means." ~ St. Isaiah the Solitary