“Love, then, is the binding power of being, on every level of reality. In fact, love is being and reality: love turning toward love in love with itself. Everything is on this track, and everything being/consciousness/bliss, whether it "knows" itself as such or not. But the soul which awakens and finds itself in the dance: that soul has won the bet.” Love QuotesIslamic QuotesSufi QuotesMysticsHakim BeySufism QuotesPeter Lamborn Wilson Book:Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy
“The "peace" which Islam seeks in its arts arises not from hatred of the image, but rather from an alchemical spiritualization or sublimation of the senses. All Islamic art implies an Image, but one that cannot be openly stated: the Image of the One. Islamic art asks us to use our Imagination in an active relation between art-object and viewer, to allow the object to evoke our own creative apperception of Oneness.” Islamic QuotesSufi QuotesIconoclasmHakim BeyPeter Lamborn WilsonPeter Lamborn Wilson QuotesHakim Bey QuotesIslamic ArtSufi Art Book:Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy
“Metaphysical truth is scandalous; that is, it violates all the accepted modes of perception, all the ordinary, epistemologically neutral expectations of the sleeping soul. It tears open a curtain and reveals the occult; it unveils a beauty which is "forbidden" only because we ignore it in our stupor.” SufismIslamic QuotesSufi QuotesHakim BeyAnarchism QuotesIslamic MetaphysicsPhilsophical Sufism Book:Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy Source: Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy