Osman Ibrahim

“أفهامُ الخلائقِ لاتتعلَّق بالحقيقة ، والحقيقة لاتتعلَّق بالخليقة . الخواطرُ علائقُ ، وعلائقُ الخلائقِ لاتصل إلى الحقائق . والإدراك إلى علم الحقيقة صعبٌ ، فكيف إلى حَقِّ الحقيقة؟”
― الحلاج, ديوان الحلاج: أخبار الحلاج - كتاب الطواسين

“أنا من أهوى ومن أهوى أنا
نـــــحن روحان حللنا بدنا
فــــــإذا أبصرتني أبصرته
وإذا أبصــــــــرته كان أنـــا
روحه روحي وروحي روحه
من رأى روحين حلا بدنـــا”
― الحسين بن منصور الحلاج

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and knowledge of our unity. This is love, and without knowing that love is both a distinguishing and the sublation of this distinction, one speaks emptily of it.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel