Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Titus Burckhardt

Born: October 24, 1908
Died: January 15, 1984 (aged 75)
Bio: Titus Burckhardt, a German Swiss, was born in Florence, Italy in 1908 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1984. He devoted all his life to the study and exposition of the different aspects of Wisdom tradition.
Known for:
- An Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (1959)
- Fez, city of Islam
- Mystical Astrology According to Ibn 'Arabi (1977)
- Mirror of the Intellect