Man's Greed:
At all times people had known greed: but at no time before this had greed outgrown а mere eagerness to acquire things and because an obsession that blurred the sight of everything else: an irresistible craving to get, to do, to contrive more and more-more today than yesterday, and more tomorrow than today: а demon riding on the necks of men and whipping their hearts forward toward goals that tauntingly glitter in the distance but dissolve into contemptible nothingness as soon as they are reached, always holding out the promise of new goals ahead -goals still more brilliant, more tempting as long as they lie on the horizon and bound to wither into further nothingness as soon as they come within grasp: and that hunger, that insatiable hunger for ever new goals gnawing at man's soul:"Nay, if you but knew it you would see the hell you are in…"
To Ье without greed is to Ье: without fear -and that if man goes beyond fear he goes beyond' danger as well, knowing that whatever happens to him/her is but his/her share in all that is happening... '
Road to Mecca
Road to Mecca written by Muhammad Asad
At all times people had known greed: but at no time before this had greed outgrown а mere eagerness to acquire things and because an obsession that blurred the sight of everything else: an irresistible craving to get, to do, to contrive more and more-more today than yesterday, and more tomorrow than today: а demon riding on the necks of men and whipping their hearts forward toward goals that tauntingly glitter in the distance but dissolve into contemptible nothingness as soon as they are reached, always holding out the promise of new goals ahead -goals still more brilliant, more tempting as long as they lie on the horizon and bound to wither into further nothingness as soon as they come within grasp: and that hunger, that insatiable hunger for ever new goals gnawing at man's soul:"Nay, if you but knew it you would see the hell you are in…"
To Ье without greed is to Ье: without fear -and that if man goes beyond fear he goes beyond' danger as well, knowing that whatever happens to him/her is but his/her share in all that is happening... '
Road to Mecca
Road to Mecca written by Muhammad Asad
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