Ibn Arabi - The very secret of servanthood

 

 

 “Seeking and aspiring, nearness and farness,
these are all qualities of the servant:
so what can the servant attain through his own qualities
with respect to One who is Incomparable and Transcendent in His Essence?
The true place of every creature is total incapacity,
standing in humility before the door of Exalted Glory,
without any ability to grasp this Treasure.
How can I know You
when You are the Inwardly Hidden who is not known?
How can I not know You
when You are the Outwardly Manifest, making Yourself known to me in every thing?
How can I realise Your Unity when in Uniqueness I have no existence?
How can I not realise Your Unity when Union is the very secret of servanthood?”

 

 

Eric Baret ~ Things happen by themselves

 

“Doing happens,
and then you appropriate the doer-ship,
but there is no doer-ship.
Things happen.
When you breathe, you don’t need to think
that you’re a breather.
When your heart beats, you don’t need to think
that you’re a beater.
When you’re digesting, you don’t need to think
that you’re a digester.
These things happen by themselves.
The same way, thinking happens by itself;
there is no thinker, there is only thinking.
The thinker is a thought of other thoughts.
So, "there’s nothing to do" actually means
that there is no appropriation in life.
Thus, you must give yourself to the fact
that life is happening through you,
but there is no need to pretend to be the doer.
It’s not that there is nothing to do,
it’s just that things happen by themselves.”

 

 

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