أحمد المدني

“You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question. To ask the right question demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity. Here is a question, a fundamental question: is life a torture? It is, as it is; and man has lived in this torture centuries upon centuries, from ancient history to the present day, in agony, in despair, in sorrow; and he doesn't find a way out of it. Therefore he invents gods, churches, all the rituals, and all that nonsense, or he escapes in different ways. What we are trying to do, during all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind, not accept things as they are, nor revolt against them. Revolt doesn't answer a thing. You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently. That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything. And to understand is to transform what is.

I think that will be enough, won't it?”
― J. Krishnamurti

“اذا ضعف الموت نفسه، وتحول إلى أنثى غير جماهيرية وغير لاتينية...وجاء حريماً مستسلماً بلا سلاح، ودخل بسلام وبإغراء وسكينة حتى أحسسنا به في كل ذرة من جسمنا وأسكرنا بهوله ... وأخذ يدغدغنا، حتى يضحكنا ونحن في سكرته، فليس من الرجولة مقاومته ومقارعته حينئذ ... بل من الواجب الاستسلام له حتى الرمق الأخير ...”
― معمر القذافي, القرية القرية، الأرض الأرض، وانتحار رائد الفضاء وقصص أخرى

“He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?”
― Maurice Freehill