Quotes
Authors
Ibn Ata Allah

"If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe."

-- Ibn Ata Allah

#Heart Quotes #Two Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Is the price of sin something that can be paid off like a debt?”
“What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.364, Univ of California Press
“Not everyoneâ€™s a lifer in this world, but what separates the wheat from the chaff is intellect. Intellect is a true indication of taste. Some smart kids are standing in these EDM festivals, in the mud and heat and sick, and theyâ€™re thinking, â€œYeah, this is fine for now, but this canâ€™t be it foreverâ€. Thereâ€™s got to be something better â€“ but they have to find it for themselves. Thatâ€™s the next generation right there.”
“We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
“Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.”
“Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.”
“The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.”
“While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.”

Source : "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.

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