Forty years ago, Roger Housden discovered the poetry of Rumi and Hafez, read tales of exotic Sufis, and was carried away by the music and wisdom of a culture that reached back over three thousand years, ac culture that gave us our word for paradise. Longing to see is the Iran of his imagination continued to exist, or whether it had been lost forever in the revolutionary zeal of the last thirty years, Housden sets off on a journey to discover a country filled with remarkable contradictions. "This books is a pilgrimage, a prayer, a heartfelt reminder, a poet-traveler's window into the eternal soul of Iran." --Jack Kornfield
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Showing posts with label iran. Show all posts
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Islamic Republic of Hell
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"The 1932 work of French novelist Balzac, “A Woman of Thirty” (Une Femme de Trente Ans), is the story of a spirited woman during the 19th century. In “A Woman of Thirty,” Eugenie is the finest Balzac female character, radiant in generosity of her love. The story clung to my memory after first reading it at the age of seventeen. Eugenie perseveres amidst her own 19th century European society of pain and of limits on her aspirations. One of the lines of the story that has remained vividly in my mind was when Eugenie told Monsieur le President, “I know what pleases you in me. Swear to leave me free during my whole life, to claim none of the rights which marriage will you over me, and my hand is yours...more”
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Alexander the great!
میگویند اسکندر قبل از حمله به ایران درمانده و مستأصل بود. از خود میپرسید که چگونه باید بر مردمی که از مردم من بیشتر میفهمند حکومت کنم؟ یکی از مشاوران میگوید: «کتابهایشان را بسوزان. بزرگان و خردمندانشان را بکش و دستور بده به زنان و کودکانشان تجاوز کنند». اما ظاهراً یکی دیگر از مشاوران (به قول برخی، ارسطو) پاسخ میدهد: «نیازی به چنین کاری نیست. از میان مردم آن سرزمین، آنها را که نمیفهمند و کم سوادند، به کارهای بزرگ بگمار. آنها که میفهمند و باسوادند، به کارهای کوچک و پست بگمار. بی سوادها و نفهم ها همیشه شکرگزار تو خواهند بود و هیچگاه توانایی طغیان نخواهند داشت. فهمیده ها و با سوادها هم یا به سرزمینهای دیگر کوچ میکنند یا خسته و سرخورده، عمر خود را تا لحظه مرگ، در گوشه ای از آن سرزمین در انزوا سپری خواهند کرد.
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