يقول الإمام أبو حامد الغزالي في ختام كتاب الميزان:
"لو لم يكن في مجاري هذه الكلمات إلا ما يشكك في إعتقادك الموروث لتنتدب للقلب وناهيك به نفعا إذ الشكوك هي الموصلة للحق فمن لم يشك لم ينظر ومن لم ينظر لم يبصر ومن لم يبصر بقي في العمى والضلال نعوذ بالله من ذلك”
“Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.”
― Ayn Rand, 'Atlas Shrugged'
The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (Arabic: الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-kḫāṭir) is a 15th-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi.
A Response to Yuval Harari's 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' By C. R. Hallpike
'He [@harari_yuval] is just in a philosophical muddle that confuses what is material with what is real, and what is immaterial with fiction.' bit.ly/3jhCrPS
Artwork by Todd Schorr
'The claim that culture is fiction is not an important insight, but is simply a perverse way of stating the obvious fact that culture is a set of shared ideas, and ideas by their very nature can't be material objects.'
'If Harari's test of reality is only what we can see, touch, or smell then mathematics, like truth, should also be a prime example of fiction.'
'Science is the new language of mysticism. The discoveries in quantum physics mirror mystical ideas put forth by Sufi mystics. Quantum physics points to a field of being that unifies and connects all into a field of information.
Rumi and the Sufi mystics spoke of the oneness and interconnection of all of existence. Quantum physics is now saying our identity lies not in matter but in space, not with form but with emptiness. The Sufis say our true identity is to be found in Laa Makan (no-place).
When we dissolve our personal identity into the greater, we taste our true essence.
Being flowers from non-being and to be you have to not be. Becoming present is a dying. Sufis speak of dying before you die (fana) in order to truly live (baqa).
كان المتنبي متفوقاً في نظم الحِكَم الفلسفية ببراعة وإيجاز وتفوّق على الفلاسفة في ذلك، وعلى سبيل المثال يقول أرسطو:
"أمراض الأفهام أشد من أمراض الأجسام"
If you are going to ask what state of feeling goes with understanding, I am afraid that it will have to be described by the word “love”. This word has unfortunately been used in so many false ways that it hardly means anything nowadays.
Yet, I think that by implication, the meaning will come across. For example, some parents claim they “love” their children, but do not understand them. Is this really possible?
If they do not understand what their children actually are, then the beings for whom they feel love must be imaginary, just projections of the parent’s own minds. Thus, what the parents actually “love” is not their actual children, but rather, some projections of themselves.
من الصدق أُشتق اسم أزكى العطاءات، وهو (الصدقة)، وأزكى العلاقات وهي (الصداقة)، فـ(الصدقة)، سُميت بذلك لأنها سلوك صعب وشديد على النفس، ولا يُخرج من ماله إلا إنسان صادق، وهذا صريح الحديث الشريف( الصدقة برهان) برهان على صدق إيمانه.
كارل غستاف يونج يسأل في سيرته الذاتية ”أهم سؤال يواجه الإنسان وعليه أن يَجِدَّ في جوابه هو، هل أنا متصل في حياتي باللامحدود – يعني الحياة الانهائية الخالدة – أم منفصل عنه ؟
ويُجِيب أنه إذا أدرك الإنسان أن هذا اللامحدود هو الأهم ينتفي كل مظهر للعبثية في تفكيره وتصبح حياته هادفه"
دائما في القرآن الحق سبحانه و تعالى ينسب النفس إلى صاحبها (قُلْ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَنْفُسِكُمْ)
و الروح دائما ينسبها الى الله سبحانه و تعالى ﴿وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِي)
“I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, & poetic than we currently believe. I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry in the sense of a world filled w/ metaphor, rhyme, & recurring patterns— is how the world works. The world isn’t logical, it’s a song.”
—— David Byrne
Quantum physics presents the Universe as a dynamic self-organizing web of evolving beauty and deep interconnection. Great poetry and art—from Walt Whitman to Van Gogh—gives us a more unified way of seeing and experiencing the world that echoes what science has to teach us.
David Bohm, Albert Einstein, Thich Nhat Hanh, Alan Watts, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and many other wise beings have encouraged us to look at life, the Universe and ourselves as a magnificent tapestry of creative self-regenerating mystery.
« إن القبض لا يكون أبداً إلا عن بسط ، والبسط قد يكون عن قبض ، وقد يكون ابتداء . فالابتداء سبق الرحمة الإلهية الغضب الإلهي ، والرحمة بسط والغضب قبض ، والبسط الذي يكون بعد قبض كالرحمة التي يرحم الله بها عباده»
ويقول الشيخ ابن عطاء الله السكندري:
« البسط خروج عن حكم وقته ، والقبض هو اللائق بهذه الدار ، إذ هي وطن التكليف ، وإبهام الخاتمة ، وعدم العلم بالسابقة ، والمطالبة بحقوق الله تعالى »
ويقول أبو الوفا التفتازاني :
« القبض والبسط من الأحوال التي ترد على السالك في طريقه إلى الله—والقبض والبسط حالتان نفسيتان متعاقبتان ، وفي القبض تشعر نفس السالك بالقلق والحزن والألم ، أما في البسط فتشعر بالفرح والطمأنينة والرضا »
“He talked to his students as equals, as he talked to all. You never felt you were learning ‘under’ him, but rather, with him.”
“He taught me that as an academic, as someone afforded the luxury of being paid to immerse yourself in ideas, you can and should be active in the world.”
'The harsh truth is going to make your life better, although maybe it makes you feel like a shit.
Pain, in all of its form, is our body’s most effective means of spurring action. It helps show us what’s good for us versus what’s bad for us.'
'Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one. Don’t hope for a life without problems. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.
Problems never stop, they merely get exchanged and/or upgraded.'
'Happiness comes from solving problems. Emphasis on the solving word. Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.'
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”—Rainer Maria Rilke
I can't un-become the person my suffering has made me—no one can.
'Creativity is not only essential for science, but also for the whole of life—if we get stuck in the mechanical repetitious order, we will degenerate, and then the creative energy will gradually fade away.'
David Bohm, 'On Creativity'
“Creativity is the underlying drive to be part of an unbroken whole—it is an impulse towards fitting that is behind all activities.”
—David Bohm
"Creativity becomes nature singing her own songs. The scientist and artist become assistants, co workers with nature. Nature seeks new ways to express herself though human society and human skills. In turn we seek to celebrate nature though acts of renewal."
Blackfoot [Native Indians] of Montana and Alberta live in a world of constant flux and process—instead of fixed laws and organizations, the Blackfoot have networks of relationships with all living things, including rocks, trees, and energies of the cosmos.
'In modern physics the essential stuff of the universe... exists as relationships and fluctuations... Indigenous science teaches that all that exists is an expression of relationships, alliances, and balances between what... we call energies, powers, or spirits.'
—F. David Peat
'Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way.... it is a dynamic and living process.'
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يقول أرسطو في كتابه 'سر الأسرار في علم الفراسة' : لا شيء في العقل إلا و هو سابقٌ في الحس، فمن فقد حسّا فقد فقدَ علماً كثيراً.
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الأصل في الإنسان المتفرّس أن يقيم علاقات بين الشبكات المختلفة connecting the dots، و عقد سيرورات بين الدلالات المتعددة للأعضاء الجزئية، وصولا لفهم السلوك الإنساني و الكوني.
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و يرى الجاحظ في كتابه 'البيان والتبيين' أن البيان هو أسم جامع لكل شيء كشف لك قناع المعنى، و هتك الحجاب دون الضمير، حتى يفضي السامع إلى حقيقته—و ليس المتفرّس إلا كباحث عن المعنى، فقط أن وسائله و أدواته تختلف [عن البيان].
"I think the attempt to make a plan to change society is not going to work, because society is the result of what it means to us, and the plan will not change what it means... This point is crucially significant for understanding psychological and social change."
—David Bohm
"For if meaning is something separate from human reality, then any change must be produced by an act of will or choice, guided perhaps by our new perception of meaning."
—David Bohm
"But if meaning itself is a key part of reality, then, once society, the individual and their relationship are seen to mean something different from what they did before, a fundamental change has already taken place."
كتمان الغضب، و عدم القدرة على التنفيس، و إيجاد الكلمات المناسبة، وإرغام نفسك على التجاهل والضحك في المواقف التي تستفزك يزيد من شحناتك السلبية مما يجعلك تنفعل في مواقف أخرى بشكل غير مبررة
عندما يفشل الانسان في "التعبير" عن مشاعره، أو لا تسعفه الكلمات لتفكيك بعض المشاعر 'المشربكة' فإن هذا الفشل ينعكس داخلياً على هيئة غضب، إكتئاب، و عواطف سوداء
تقول الف شفق في 'قواعد العشق الاربعين':
تنبع معظم مشاكل العالم من أخطاء لغوية ومن سوء فهم بسيط. لا تأخذ الكلمات بمعناها الظاهري مطلقًا. وعندما تلج دائرة الحب، تكون اللغة التي نعرفها قد عفى عليها الزمن، فالشيء الذي لا يمكن التعبير عنه بكلمات، لا يمكن إدراكه إلا بالصمت.
