Creative imagination Quote by Henry Corbin Download Open image ““Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.”” — Henry Corbin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creative imagination Prayer
“The act of prayer present an opportunity to communicate and connect to the Supreme being,God.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Prayer is my chief work; by it I carry on all else. Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of… — William Laws Copy Share Image
“Prayer is an intentional act of fellowship with God, through which we discover His will and exact His authority on the Earth by the… — Tolulope Oyewole Copy Share Image
Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
“And the ritual of Prayer embraces all these movements: (a) There is the ascending, vertical movement which corre- sponds to the faithful's erect stance. This is the movement of the growth of man, whose head rises toward the heavens. ( b ) There is the horizontal movement, which corresponds to the orant's state at the moment of the profound inclination.… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.” — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“The authentic mystic wisdom ( mafrifa) is that of the soul which knows itself as a theophany, an individual form in which are epiphanized the divine Attributes which it would be unable to know if it did not discover and apprehend them in itself. 'When you have entered into my Paradise, you have entered into your- self ( into your… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“What explanation does Ibn Arabi give for these phenomena ? A first explanation invokes the hierarchical planes of being, the Hadarat, or "Presences." There… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
“On both sides we encounter the idea that the Godhead possesses the power of Imagination, and that by imagining the universe God created it; that He drew this universe from within Himself, from the eternal virtualities and potencies of His own being; that there exists between the universe of pure spirit and the sensible world an intermediate world which is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“The theosophy of Light suggests the metaphor of the mirror and the shadow. But "shadow" must not be taken to imply a dimension of Satanic darkness, an Ahrimanian antagonist; this shadow is essentially a reflection, the projection of a silhouette or face in a mirror. Our authors even speak of a "luminous shadow" ( in the sense that color is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist, ... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma. ... Prayer is… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“But again we must be careful to bear in mind that for Ibn Arabi fana is never absolute annihilation ( the failure to do so has been a source of countless misunderstandings in regard both to Sufismm and to Buddhism ). Fana and baqa are always relative terms. Accord- ing to Ibn Arabi, one must always state toward what there… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“To begin with, let us recall the /J,adltlt which all our mysticr of Islam untiringly meditate, the �adltlt in which the Godhead reveals the secret of His passion ( his pathos): "I was a hidden Treasure and I yearned to be known. Then I created creatures in order to be known by them." With still greater fidelity to Ibn rArabi's… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“In this essential point Ibn rArabi declares concisely: "Those to whom God remains veiled pray the God who in their belief is their Lord to have compassion with them. But the intuitive mystics [Ahl al-Kashf] ask that divine Compassion be fulfilled [come into being, exist] through them."28 In other words, the Gnostic's prayer does not tend to provoke a change… — Henry Corbin Copy Share
“To become a Compassionate One is to become the likeness of the Compassionate God experiencing infinite sadness over undisclosed virtualities; it is to embrace,… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original,… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the… — Robert M. Hayes Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“The abilities distinctive of human beings are abilities of intellect and will. The relevant abilities of intellect are thought, imagination (the cogitative and creative… — P. M. S. Hacker Copy Share Image
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership… a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share
Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
“The dragonfly and damselfly reflect and work with the sun and light. The light changes throughout the day. The dragonfly and damselfly undergo their own transformations. If they have shown up, look for change to occur. Are you resisting change when you shouldn’t? Dragonflies remind us that we are light and can reflect the light in powerful ways if we… — Ted Andrews Copy Share
“Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can be elegant and very beautiful but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts—or predetermined forms—it cannot fly. Excepting those masters who transcend their craft—great medieval and Renaissance artisans, for example, or nameless artisans of traditional cultures as far back as the caves who were also spontaneous unselfconscious artists.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share
“But as he stands before imminent death, he grasps its nature also, and the cosmic import of the step to come. His creative imagination constructs new, fearful prospects behind the curtain of death, and he sees that even there is no sanctuary found. And now he can discern the outline of his biologico-cosmic terms: He is the universe’s helpless captive,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share
“For a century and a half, people have wondered what factors - genetic and environmental - were especially significant in the evolution of the Bronte genius. Part of the answer lies, I believe, in the physical, emotional, intellectual and religious freedom accorded to the exceptional talents that developed in Haworth Parsonage. It was a freedom allied to an ethos of… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share
