Quotes About Arabi

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

Idries Shah

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

Idries Shah

#6. 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.

Ibn Arabi

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

Ibn Arabi

#8. Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.

Shirin Ebadi

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

Ibn Arabi

#10. However, it has come to our attention that there is a small safety "glitch" with the Git R Done 447, which might cause it to fire too soon or even randomly, accidentally killing someone you love. Awkward, we know.

Libba Bray

#11. 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.

Ibn Arabi

#12. Everybody, I think, that was in 'Harry Potter' was certainly introduced to an enormous lot of young people.

John Hurt

#13. As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration.

Daniel Craig

#14. 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.

Ibn Arabi

#15. 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.

Ibn Arabi

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

Ibn Arabi

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

Idries Shah

#18. Why not imagine yourself successful?

Maxwell Maltz

#19. Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

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

Ibn Arabi

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

Ibn Arabi

#22. For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Neil Postman

#23. 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.

Ibn Arabi

#24. 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

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

Ibn Arabi

#26. 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

Ibn Arabi

#27. I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

Ang Lee

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

Ibn Arabi

#29. More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Rose Kennedy

#30. It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.

Cappie Pondexter

#31. 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

Ibn Arabi

#32. Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.

Clare Balding

#33. There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Carolyn Hart

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

Ibn Arabi

#35. 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.

Ibn Arabi

#36. 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.

Ibn Arabi

#37. Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Ibn Arabi

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

Ibn Arabi

#39. I love a woman who's solid in her shoes.

Melissa McCarthy

#40. For love is as strong as death.

Cassandra Clare

#41. 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

Ibn Arabi

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

Ibn Arabi