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I see myself as other than God
From Know Yourself, by Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi or Awhad al-din Balyani
If someone then says, “I see myself as other than God and I do not see God as myself,”
The answer is as follows: The Prophet meant, by the word ‘self’, your being and your essential reality and not the self which is called the blaming self or the egotistical self or the self which is known as the confident or peaceful self; by the self, he was alluding to everything that is other than God, like when he said, “O God, show me things as they are.” He meant by things whatever is other than God; so this prayer means, “Make me know what is other than You, so that I may know what things really are – whether they are You or other than You, whether they are eternal and subsistent, or newly happening and temporal.” Leer Más
I see myself as other than God
Not Trapped in one belief
One of the special matters that Ibn ‘Arabi wants to explain in his Futuhat al-Makkiyahis this: “If a gnostic is really a gnostic he cannot stay tied to one form of belief.” Leer Más
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A large-scale genetic study has provided strong evidence that the development of insulin resistance — a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart attacks and one of the key adverse consequences of obesity — results from the failure to safely store excess fat in the body. Leer Más
