"How can the heart travel to God, when……" — Ibn Arabi
"How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?"
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Ibn Arabi
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17 Quotes by Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi has 17 quotes on this site.
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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks,…
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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…
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Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to…
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None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to…
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Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to…
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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…
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The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see…
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My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for…
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I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my…
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Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed,…
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There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart…
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More Chained Quotes
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
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We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and…
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
— Thomas Paine
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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or…
— Rajneesh
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when…
— Fisher Ames
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There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or…
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