The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom Quotes

“In such a world, the notion of the perfectability of desire as love, or the conformity of the soul to the Beauty of the Spirit, is all but forgotten—replaced by Modernist explanations of desire in terms of behavioral instincts, or the pleasure/pain principle, or libido, or the evolutionist's creed of the "survival of the fittest". These theories are reinforced and systematized through the tyranny of the modern media and its various seductions that fuel the monster of consumption, creating wants and desires that mankind never before even dreamed of. Lost in such a world is the respect for traditional values, for the nobility of the person, the sanctity of relationships, the wonder of life, and the appreciation that "everything that lives is holy".”
― Ali M. Lakhani, The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom

“Modern man has an insatiable thirst for the gifts of God, but is blind to His Presence. Instead he perceives only the objects of his lusts, breeding through them a world of concupiscence, exploitation, commodification and wanton consumption—a world in which desire is reduced to the need for the instant gratification of individual wants and cravings, and the indulging of personal appetites.”
― Ali M. Lakhani, The Timeless Relevance of Traditional Wisdom