All that is, He contains within Himself like thoughts: the world, Himself, the All. Therefore, unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God; for like is not intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure; by a leap [of intellect], free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God.

Believe that nothing is impossible for you; think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, the dry and the moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky; that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once-all times, places, substances, qualities, quantities-you may understand God

Experience shows that the spirit is nothing but awareness. Whoever has greater awareness has greater spirit… When the spirit becomes greater and passes beyond all bounds, the spirits of all things become obedient to it.


So to experience your reality as the creator of it, realize that where you are is the center of all that is occurring. This is what it means to be centered. When you think someone, something or somewhere else is the center of what's going on, you are giving your power away to the external world. Move through your world with the consciousness that you are the center of the universe and you will find that you don't really have to shift much as things and people around you shift themselves instead.





Awakening as One

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Ibnu Arabi 10

When the mystery of the oneness of the soul and the Divine is revealed to you, you will understand that you are no other than God. ... Then you will see all your actions to be His actions and all your attributes to be His attributes and your essence to be His essence.

... Thus, instead of [your own] essence, there is the essence of God and in place of [your own] attributes, there are the attributes of God. He who knows himself sees his whole existence to be the Divine existence, but does not experience that any change has taken place in his own nature or qualities. For when you know yourself, your sense of a limited identity vanishes, and you know that you and God are one and the same.

Ketika misteri kesatuan Ruh dan Tuhan yang dibukakan kepadamu, anda akan memahami bahawa anda tidak lain dari Tuhan..Kemudian anda akan melihat semua tindakan anda adalah tindakan-Nya dan semua sifat anda adalah Sifat-Nya dan zat anda adalah Zat-Nya.

... Jadi, dibalik [zat anda] sendiri, ada Zat Allah dan di tempat [sifat anda], ada sifat-sifat Allah. Dia yang mengenal dirinya melihat seluruh kewujudan adalah kewujudan Tuhan, tetapi tidak mengalami sebarang perubahan kepada sifat semula jadi diri sendiri atau keupayaan sifatnya. Kerana apabila anda mengenal diri sendiri, rasa identiti yang terhad hilang, dan anda tahu bahawa anda dan Tuhan adalah satu dan yang sama.


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