Muhammad Asad Quote

I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.

The Road To Mecca: (ed. The Book Foundation, 1954) - ISBN: 9780992798109