The Eternal and The Temporal

If you say that this thing is the

 

[temporal] Universe, you are right.

 

~If you say that it is God who is

 

eternal, you are right.

 

If you say that it is neither the

 

Universe nor God but something

 

conveying some additional meaning,

 

you are right.

 

~All these views are correct,

 

for it is the whole comprising

 

 the eternal and the temporal.      ~  Arabi, Sufi

 

 

Ibn ul-Arabi (July 28, 1165 – November 10, 1240) was an

 Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic, poet and philosopher.

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