“الكلمات أفعال أيضاً، والأفعال نوع من الكلمات.”
― The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And how can someone be described as flawless [or protector] who is not freed from his lower self”
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“Ibn Arabi observes that the most perfect of mystic lovers are
those who love God simultaneously for himself and for them-
selves, because this capacity reveals in them the unification of
their twofold nature (a resolution of the torn "conscience
malheureuse" ). He who has made himself capable of such love
is able to do so because he combines mystic knowledge ( ma
rrifa ) with vision ( shuhud) .”
― Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
those who love God simultaneously for himself and for them-
selves, because this capacity reveals in them the unification of
their twofold nature (a resolution of the torn "conscience
malheureuse" ). He who has made himself capable of such love
is able to do so because he combines mystic knowledge ( ma
rrifa ) with vision ( shuhud) .”
― Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself”
― A History of the Arab Peoples
― A History of the Arab Peoples
“I am all in favour of science and reason if they are scientific and reasonable. But I am against granting scientists and the materialist worldview an exemption from critical thinking and sceptical investigation. We need an enlightenment of the Enlightenment.17”
― The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
― The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
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