Tag Archives: Ibn Arabi

The world is a place actualizing our humanity

A human must first gain his personal independence by becoming an “aware” soul in order to achieve economic independence.  An aware soul is someone -like Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, the Buddha, Ibn Arabi, Jelaluddin Rumi, Joan of Arc, Averroes, Hafez, Isaac Newton, Noam Chomsky- who functions to detect and remove any contradictions which darken the […]

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To be in the world but not of it

Ibn Arabi, who is considered to be the greatest sheikh in Sufism, was traveling to Mecca, and he passed through Tunisia. In Tunisia he was told that there was a holy man living there who he must visit. This holy man was a fisherman who lived in a mud hut on the beach and caught […]

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The Beauty of Following the Guidance of God by William C. Chittick, Ph.D.

This is an ancient story, constantly retold in everyday life. Everyone knows that we have lost our beauty. It is so obvious that many people refuse to consider the idea that there is any such thing. No, they respond, human beings are rotten to the core, heartless and soulless, besotted with egotistic illusions, indifferent to […]

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Book Review by Darren Logan — An Oil Painter

If there is one thing which I love about this new cultural landscape of the internet we seem to inhabit more and more, it is the ability of cultural creatives, artists, musicians, writers, armchair philosophers, spiritual seekers, and just about anyone else with an idea to make personal effort to promote themselves, find like minded […]

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