Mikhail Naimy

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

— Mikhail Naimy

No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love…

— Mikhail Naimy

“Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in…

— Mikhail Naimy

“Be kind to men of every race and clime, my companions. They are the food for your God-ward journey. But be especially…

— Mikhail Naimy

Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath…

— Mikhail Naimy

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find…

— Mikhail Naimy

“The really poor is he who misuses what he has. The really rich is he who well uses what he has.”

— Mikhail Naimy

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

— Mikhail Naimy

If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be…

— Mikhail Naimy

“If you would truly govern men, dive to their utmost depths. For men are more than foaming waves. But to dive to…

— Mikhail Naimy

“Once Understanding is unveiled, then victory is won and Peace established in the heart for ever and anon. An understanding heart is…

— Mikhail Naimy

“Seek no authority over the lives of men; of that the Omniwill is master. Nor seek authority over the goods of men;…

— Mikhail Naimy

To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain.…

— Mikhail Naimy

“A perfect unit is the Earth. Why do you persist in disremembering her with swords and boundary marks?”

— Mikhail Naimy

“An aim missed is always an aim attained. Let your hearts be Disappointment-proof”

— Mikhail Naimy

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

— Mikhail Naimy

“Except you be fed with the grapes of Love you shall no be filled with the wine of Understanding.”

— Mikhail Naimy

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see.…

— Mikhail Naimy

Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the…

— Mikhail Naimy

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for…

— Mikhail Naimy

“To the unspoiled, even a snikebite is a loving kiss. But to the spoiled even a loving kiss is a snake bite.”

— Mikhail Naimy

“Look not into a passion’s mouth to see if it have fangs or honeyed mandibles. The bee that gathers up the nectar…

— Mikhail Naimy

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

— Mikhail Naimy

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think…

— Mikhail Naimy

A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.…

— Mikhail Naimy