“To be acquainted with what is best and oldest in yourself,
is to know yourself as you were, before the world was
made, before you emerged into time.”
― Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
is to know yourself as you were, before the world was
made, before you emerged into time.”
― Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
“Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but “confiscated” the Message; Christianity universalized but “altered” it; Islam in turn restored it by stabilizing and universalizing it.”
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“The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...”
― Ethics
― Ethics
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