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end/ act, just once, with beauty and courage @unitethepoor #unitingtheglobalpoor

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Jan 2022

@SophiaCycles I prefer the Mitchell translation: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying." ?s=20

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles Al-Ghazali: "You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck.” FWIW, perhaps no scholar, of any world tradition, is as comprehensively acknowledged as wedding philosophy and mysticism, more fully and deftly, as the great integrator and C5th mujaddid, Al-Ghazali.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Al-Ghazali: "You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck.” FWIW, perhaps no scholar, of any world tradition, is as comprehensively acknowledged as wedding philosophy and mysticism, more fully and deftly, as the great integrator and C5th mujaddid, Al-Ghazali.