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Feb 23 '12
“Karl Marx famously called religion ‘the opiate of the masses.’ Buddhism, particularly as it is popularly practiced, promises improvement through karma. Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, ‘I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love god for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.’”
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John Green Looking For Alaska (via leohidalgo-03)

John Green you are good at words like David Tennant is good at having a face. Which is to say, very good.

(Source: littlevintagelion)

124 notes (via patchedworklife & littlevintagelion)Tags: John Green Looking for Alaska

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    (Looking for Alaska,...Green) I do not practice Sufism. As a Christian, I find this quote...
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