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