Wednesday, January 11, 2006

We Belong to God

I belong to God, as has often been shown; yet I also belong to myself. He becomes Himself through me. I live in Him, and I live in myself. I have two aspects, He and I, divine and human. But He is not I, and I am not He. My actions are the theatre in which He expresses Himself; to Him I am a vessel.

-Ibn Arabi, “Fusus al-hikam”

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