"from the perspective of others I am part of the world, but when I observe the world from my perspective I am nowhere to be found. to observe is to create perspective. I can never cease to be the point of origin from my perspective. I observe that which is not myself. this is the first principle to find."
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The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh... And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.
Listen my beloved
Listen, O dearly beloved!
I am the Truth of the universe,
The center of circumferences.
I am the Principle and the Constituent.
The power initiated between heavens and the Earth.
I created perception in you,
so that you can perceive Me
Your perceptions come into reality,
only if you could perceive Me.
But you cannot perceive me through yourself,
you cannot see Me through your own eyes,
Only through My eyes, you can see Me and yourself..
⁵²⁰¹³¹⁴
By Ibn Arabi
And when you’ve been hurt once, you’re afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.
Seeking a clue to the principle involved, she asked the young woman one day, “What is your goal in life? What is it that you want to achieve?” The young woman answered immediately, as if the answer had long been clear in her mind:
“I’ll tell you what I want. If nobody had an automobile, then I would want to have one automobile. If some people have one, then I want to have two."
...
The woman, Ayn thought, would conventionally be called “selfish.” But wasn’t a 'self'—that which thinks, judges, values, and chooses—precisely what she lacked? I want to achieve things that are important—important objectively, in reality, in fact—thought Ayn; she wants only to make an impression on others. I choose my own goals, I decided that I wanted to write, and what I wanted to write; she struggles to imitate the goals chosen by others. I set my | own standards; her desires are dictated by the standards of others. Why? What is the concept that will name the essence of the difference involved..?
Sayfa 132
(And when you’ve been hurt once, you’re afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)
...I always remembered the old adage; and I trust it has ever been my ruling principle, that honesty is the best policy...
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"I went there after I left London. You know I dropped medicine and took up physics? No; well, I did. Light fascinated me."
"Ah!"
"Optical density! The whole subject is a network of riddles- a network with solutions glimmering elusively through. And being but two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said 'I will
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Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night
“Aren’t you supposed to hate me?” I
asked.
“I do hate you,” Xander replied, happily devouring his third scone. “If
you notice, I have kept the blueberry confections for myself and gave
you”—he shuddered—“the lemon-flavored scones. Such is the depth of my
loathing for you personally and on principle.”
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