Ibn Arabi Quotes

#1. The hearts of all mystic lovers." Likewise when Ibn Arabi, the distinguished philosopher, writer, and mystic, saw the young Rumi walking behind his father one day, he exclaimed, "Glory be to God, an ocean is

Elif Shafak

#2. As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.

Idries Shah

#3. The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.

Fritjof Capra

#4. The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all. Ibn Arabi.

Idries Shah

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

Ibn Arabi

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

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#7. You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

Andy Samberg

#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Montgomery Clift

#12. Ibn El-Arabi wrote, 'The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

Idries Shah

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

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#14. [T]houghts will arise. Don't be bothered by them. Don't think they're bad or that you shouldn't be having them. ... If you leave them alone, they'll depart of their own accord. This is how to 'cease all movements of the conscious mind.' You cannot do it by the direct application of your will.

Steve Hagen

#15. Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man

Idries Shah

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

Ibn Arabi

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

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#18. At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Maya Angelou

#19. The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Noam Chomsky

#20. 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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#21. Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#22. 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.

Ibn Arabi

#23. Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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

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#25. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.

J. B. Smoove

#26. I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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

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#29. 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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#30. There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Jenna Elfman

#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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

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#36. 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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#37. Stuck in high school for the rest of my natural life. Talk about hell.

Cara Lynn Shultz

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

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

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