My heart can take on any form:
A meadow for gazelles,
A cloister for monks,
For the idols, sacred ground,
Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim,
The tables of the Torah,
The scrolls of the Quran.
My creed is Love;
Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
That is my belief,
My faith.
Ibn Arabi, born on 25 July 1165, Andalusian Sufi mystic and philosopher, died on 8 November 1240.
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
I was wedded to all the stars of the sky.There was not a single star left, and I married every one of them with great spiritual pleasure. Then I married the moon.
Other personalities born today:
Elias Canetti, born 25 July 1905, Sun in Leo, Moon in Taurus.
The blind man is not blind by birth, but he became blind with little effort. He has a camera, he takes it everywhere, and he just loves keeping his eyes closed. He walks about as though asleep, he has seen absolutely nothing as yet, and already he is shooting it, for when all things lie next to one another, equally small, equally large, always rectangular, orderly, cut off, named, numbered, proven and demonstrated, then you can see them much better in any event.
The blind man saves himself the trouble of viewing anything beforehand. He gathers the things he would have seen and piles them up and enjoys them as though they were stamps. He travels all over the world for the sake of his camera, nothing is far enough, shiny enough, strange enough—he gets it for the camera. He says: I was there, and he points to it, and if he could not point at it he would not know where he had been, the world is confusing, exotic, rich, who can retain it all.
Edward Arthur Wilson (25 July 1878 – 7 November 1934?), better known as Brother XII, English mystic who, founder of a spiritual community located just south of the city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
Santiago Day/St. James the Great Day: patron of Spain, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Göttingen; St. Christopher: patron of Havana, Santeria identification of Aganyú-Solá; Galicia National Day (25 July).