I feel like I’ve been harping on this a lot lately but this is what I’ve been thinking about and trying to deal with in my life. MysticSaint at, Inspirations and Creative Thoughts, has another excellent post from which I’ll pull a couple quotes that he quotes:
… the mystic is known only through the fact that he brings opposites together, for all of him is the Real. Thus Abu Said al Kharraz was asked, “Through what have you known Allah?” He replied, “Through the fact that He brings opposites together,” for he had witnessed their coming together in himself.
– Ibn Arabi
Praise be to God who hath given His creatures no way of attaining to knowledge of Him except through their inability to know Him.
– Abu Bakr
Things lie hidden in their opposites, and but for the existence of opposites, the Opposer would have no manifestations.
– Al Alawi
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