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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

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
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Destiny Heaven Nature One Liner Seek
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.
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Eyes Face Failure Himself Nature Worship
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.
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Belief God Goodness Knowledge Oneself Reality Restriction
I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
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Faith Journey Love Myself Path Religion Way
I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
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Believe Direction Faith Love Myself Religion
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.
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Existence God Himself Love
You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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Face Faith Myself See Yourself
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.
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Independent Love Myself Separation Spiritual Unity
My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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Belief Faith Love Myself Religion
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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Desire God Heart Religious Travel
When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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God Religious Wisdom Yourself
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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Animal Dream Dreams God Man Nature Plant Sleep Wake Up
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.
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Acceptance Alone Blame Company Difference Heart Love Myself Religion Time
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.
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Belief Deep Faith Heart Idol Love Place Religious Thinking Wisdom
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.
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Authority Guide Himself Person Reveal Trust
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.
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Argument Build Evidence Faith Heart Mindset Wisdom

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