Ibn Arabi Quotes

#1. How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires

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#2. The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

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#3. I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love's caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith.

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#4. In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me more than those of actual life

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#5. I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union ... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

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#6. There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form ... Love alone is my religion.

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#7. Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.

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#8. Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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#9. How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

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#10. If you find it complicated to answer someone's question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

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#11. When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

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#12. Deliver us, O Allah, from the Sea of Names.

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#13. While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

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#14. Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

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#15. My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith.

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#16. My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.

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#17. I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.

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#18. God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

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#19. I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

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#20. I saw Divinity with the Eye of the Heart. I said, "Who are you. It said, "You.

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#21. Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or ... he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

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#22. The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst.

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