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Ibn Arabi has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the…
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While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads…
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Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For…
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None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye…
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Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective,…
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You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself
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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…
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The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own…
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My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.…
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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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Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge…
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There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every…
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt…
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I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
— Sharon Horgan
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by…
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The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.…
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My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this…
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