Sufi Wisdom

Hafez: Between lover and beloved there is no barrier, you yourself are your own veil, Hafez. Remove yourself!
Shaghori: The veils of separation have been lifted.
Ali: The sun has risen turn off the lamp.

Hallaj: The path is between two, but there is no one with Him.
Sakandari: The only thing veiling you from Him is the illusion of being alongside Him.
Rumi: If the ego is removed from you, who I am would appear to you ...

Ibn Arabi: The world is a shadow
Rumi: Like a shadow I am and I am not
Wafa: My sun has reached its zenith, I am no more

Dennett: Consciousness is a user illusion
Hinton: Computers can be conscious
Searle: The brain has the causal power to produce consciousness
Kalam: The soul doesn't have the causal power to produce consciousness
The Sufis: When I love him, I am the sight with which he sees

Biologists: Love is a survival mechanism
Biochemists: Love is a change in brain chemicals
Rumi: Love is the perfect thirst, let me explain the water of life
Iraqi: No one loves any but You

Habermas: Modernity is dominant but dead.
Rumi: When you decide to start the journey the path will appear.

There is no end to spiritual unveiling because His manifestations are endless and with each manifestation the purity and the capacity of your mirror increase and so the beauty of the reflection and that increases the understanding ability.

Ibn Arabi

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

In all love stories, there must be a separation, that is why we are here

Ibn Al-farid: Burn my body and all my limbs but keep my heart because you are in it.
Layla: Majnun revealed his love while I suppressed mine and died in sorrow, so if they call where are the martyrs of love at the last day, I will come forth alone.

Wafa: I have forgotten every way I know except the one that leads to you.
Majnun: It is not the stones that raptured my heart but the one who lived inside the stones.
Artimani: Hold my chains my friends, the breeze of India might turn me into an elephant ...

Let it all go and wait for a new beginning

Drown me in the essence of the ocean of unicity until I neither see, nor hear, nor find, nor sense, except through it.
Ibn Mashish

You are created in the image of the Limitless, True freedom is achieved only by those who pass beyond the limits of every station and specificity.

Ibn Arabi

The full moon (the perfect man) will perfectly reflect the light of the sun (the divine) only when the earth (the lower self) no longer eclipses the sun.

Ibn Arabi

Limiting yourself to manifisted beauty, claiming you see Him in it, is unreliable.
Longing that subsides with meeting is unreliable.
Love that leaves a trace of you is unreliable.
Love if not comprehensive is unreliable.

Ibn Arabi

Nasr: Emptiness is a main principle in Islamic art, its role is to feel the presence, because the emptiness from the world means the fullness of the divine.

Bedil: You need to empty the Ney
Sakandari: Empty your heart of all things other than Him
Shabestari: When you depart out, your heart become the dwelling place of the Beloved
Shabestari: In the empty heart, void of the self, can be heard "I am the Truth" ...

Ibn al-Habib: The world is meaning set up in images.
Ibn Arabi: This world is like a dream and it needs to be interpreted to unveil its inner realities.
Nasr: Islamic Art is the manifestation in the world of forms of the spiritual realities of the Islamic revelation.

Ibn Arabi: We love beauty because it reminds us of Him.
Rumi: Behind the veil of melody hides the secrets of the day when we were in His presence.
Tilimsani: Sama is a call that takes each one to his homeland.
Tusi: Natural Sama is induced by beautiful melody, Divine Sama is hearing Him.

Attar: Ishq is a fire in the soul to take it back to its origin.
Iraqi: Ishq is a fire when it enters the heart it burns everything it finds.
Jili: Ishq is the annihilation of the lover until nothing remains of him, no trace, no name, no description.

Every longing that subsides with meeting is unreliable
Every love that leaves a trace of you is unreliable
Every annihilation that doesn't lead to subsistence is unreliable
Every subsistence followed by annihilation is unreliable
Every unveiling that contradict the law is unreliable

Ibn Arabi

There is no end to spiritual unveiling because His manifestations are endless and with each manifestation the purity and the capacity of your mirror increase and so the beauty of the reflection and that increases the understanding ability.

Ibn Arabi

In your ascension to Him each world will take from you what belongs to it until nothing remains of you except a secret from Him and with that only you can see and hear Him.

Ibn Arabi

In seclusion and without any distraction keep uttering Allah over and over again with presence. If your will is strong, intention pure, perseverance stable & if bodily desires or internal speech don't distract you with ties of this world, then flashes of Truth will shine forth in your heart

Ghazali

The worst thing you could do to yourself is to descend to the level of your lower animal impulses, walking in nature will help you out of this and if you accompany it with invoking the divine name Allah, it will lead you to ascend to the transcendent and to endless life renewal.

The moon is there when you are not observing because He is observing, even when you are observing you don't have the causal power to collapse the wave function, He is the only one who has the causal power.
'Is it not sufficient that your Lord is a Witness over all things' Quran 53:41

How the heart will be illuminated while the forms of the worlds are reflected in its mirror.
Sakandari