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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 ArabiIbn Arabi It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi 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 ArabiIbn Arabi 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 ArabiIbn Arabi None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi 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 ArabiIbn Arabi My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi 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 ArabiIbn Arabi I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi
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