Mikhail Naimy Quotes

• Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love Is, Attachment

  "The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark". Book by Mikhail Naimy, 2011.

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• Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love, Men, Law

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.64, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Less possessing-less possessed.
  More possessing-more possessed.
  More possessed-less accessed.
  Less possessed-more accessed.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Possessing, Possessed

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• Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Heart, Temples

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.76, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• So, think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire across the sky for all and everything to see.For so, in truth, it is.So speak as if the world entire were but a single ear intent on hearing what you say.And so, in truth, it is.Do as if your every deed were to recoil upon your heads.And, so in truth it does.So wish as if you were the wish.And so, in truth, you are.So live as if your God Himself had need of you his life to live.And so, in truth, he does.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Thinking, Fire, Sky

  Mikha'il Na'ima, “This Is The Way To Freedom From Care And Pain”

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• Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Patience, Thinking, Curves

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.174, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Gold, Care, Priceless

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Peace, Fighting, Ubuntu

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• Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Life, Veils, Shed

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.39, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Money, Eye, Kissing

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.116, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love, Giving

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• He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!

  Mikhail Naimy

  Heaven, Earth, Taste

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• Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Wise, Feet, Immaturity

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• How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Men, Thinking, Sea

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Love Is, Men, Blood

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.107, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Men, Doe, Needs

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• The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Labyrinth, Faces, Sun

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Mazes, World, Speech

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.38, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Body, Form, Dies

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• Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Thoughtful, Wind, Breasts

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.129, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
  flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
  the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
  Unity and Holy Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy

  Men, Perfect, Understanding

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.108, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Positive, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.59, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !

  Mikhail Naimy

  Pain, Prey, Live By

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Beautiful, Men, Illumination

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