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In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

Ameen Rihani

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Ameen Rihani
Age: 63 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 24
Died: 1940
Died: September 13
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Writer
Ottoman Levant
Amīn Fāris Anṭūn ar-Rīḥānī
Ameen Fares Rihani
Amin Rihani
Vain
Evoked
Also
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Natives
Soul
Discover
Submerged
Men
Modern
Pursuits
Life
Humanity
Kinship
Coils
Lost
Toil
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Nature
Desert
Naturalness
Gentle
Toils
Become

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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
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Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.
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Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die it only undergoes a change.
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If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
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True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
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The heart yields spontaneity the mind bends to understanding.
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Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
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Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
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Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
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I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.
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We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
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... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth always repeats itself.
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In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
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Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.
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I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
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I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
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Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
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Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
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