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By the time the Brotherhood was transformed into a political organization in 1936, some of its members were already participating in uprisings against Zionist settlements in Palestine. Al-Banna
“The postures are both a metaphor and a means for that process. They are tools for creating a connection between the imagination and the physical world. Realizing this connection—this union between body and mind—could be called yoga.”
― Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
― Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
“am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.”
― While Still We Live
― While Still We Live
“It did not require a great deal of imagination to picture a world in which power had passed into the hands of Al Capones with their private bombing squadrons.”
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
“Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.”
― While Still We Live
― While Still We Live
“But now I’m beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it’s really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.”
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
― The Definitive James Hilton Collection
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