Duality Archives - Spiritual Quotes https://spiritual-quotes.org/tag/duality/ Quotes for Any Occasion Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:54:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 I am my beloved and my lover https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/i-am-my-beloved-and-my-lover/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:18:47 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1082 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

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]]> 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

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]]> True love has no Lover or Beloved https://spiritual-quotes.org/love/true-love-lover-beloved/ Sun, 06 Jul 2014 11:12:06 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1061 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 […]

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]]> 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 of Self.

– Sri Poonja

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]]> In the end all things return to the One https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/end-things-return-one/ Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:29:19 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1036 How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun’s light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One’s perfection. – Hsu Yun

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]]> How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth!
The moonlight leads the tides and the sun’s light will not be confined within the net of heaven.

But in the end all things return to the One.

The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One’s perfection.

– Hsu Yun

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]]> Everything the same https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/everything/ Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:20:04 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=939 Everything the same; everything distinct. – Zen proverb

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everything distinct.

– Zen proverb

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]]> Lord, where shall I find you https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/lord-shall-find/ Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:14:30 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=900 Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth is full of your glory! You are found in our innermost heart, yet you fixed earth’s boundaries. You are a strong tower for those who are near and the trust of those who […]

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]]> Lord, where shall I find you?
Your place is lofty and secret.
And where shall I not find you?
The whole earth is full of your glory!
You are found in our innermost heart,
yet you fixed earth’s boundaries.
You are a strong tower for those who are near
and the trust of those who go far.
I have sought to come near you;
I have called to you with all my heart;
and when I went out towards you,
I found you coming towards me.

– Judah Halevi

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]]> The experience of life https://spiritual-quotes.org/the-meaning-of-life/experience-life/ Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:35:22 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=913 The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. – Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

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]]> The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

– Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

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]]> I am the Existent and the non-existent https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/existent-non-existent/ Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:10:03 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=888 The post I am the Existent and the non-existent appeared first on Spiritual Quotes.

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]]> The I is as real as… https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/real/ Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:48:00 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=805 The “I” in “I think” and “I do” is as real as the “it” in “it rains” and “it is cold.” – Leo Hartong

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]]> The “I” in “I think” and “I do” is as real as the “it” in “it rains” and “it is cold.”

– Leo Hartong

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]]> Only God I saw https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/god-saw/ Sun, 06 Apr 2014 11:04:26 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=799 In the market, in the cloister – only God I saw. In the valley and on the mountain – only God I saw. Him I have seen beside me oft in tribulation; In favor and in fortune – only God I saw. In prayer and fasting, in praise and contemplation, In the religion of the […]

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]]> In the market, in the cloister – only God I saw.
In the valley and on the mountain – only God I saw.

Him I have seen beside me oft in tribulation;
In favor and in fortune – only God I saw.

In prayer and fasting, in praise and contemplation,
In the religion of the Prophet – only God I saw.

Neither soul nor body, accident nor substance,
Qualities nor causes – only God I saw.

I opened mine eyes and by the light of his face around me
In all the eye discovered – only God I saw.

Like a candle I was melting in his fire:
Amidst the flames outflashing – only God I saw.

Myself with mine own eyes I saw most clearly,
But when I looked with God’s eyes – only God I saw.

I passed away into nothingness, I vanished,
And lo, I was the All-living – only God I saw.

– Baba Kuhi of Shiraz

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]]> A kind of optical delusion https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/kind-optical-delusion/ Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:26:03 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=763 A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves […]

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]]> A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison.

– Albert Einstein

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