I am my beloved and my lover
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. – Ibn ‘Arabi
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. – Ibn ‘Arabi
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity, place your soul in the brightness of His glory, place your heart in the image of the divine essence and transform yourself by contemplation utterly into the image of His divinity, that you too may feel what His friends feel as they taste the hidden sweetness that…
He travels with whoever looks for Him, and having taken the seeker by the hand, He arouses him to go in search of himself. – Al-Ansari
That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss. – Gregory of Nyssa
Realization is simply to give birth to something within oneself. – Anonymous
Know that what appears to be Love for an ‘other’ is really Love of Self because ‘other’ doesn’t exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no ‘other’. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love…
It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. – Schopenhauer
Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get. – Swami Chinmayananda
Metaphysician: A man who goes into a dark cellar at midnight without a light looking for a black cat that is not there. – Bowen of Colwood