He who is the servant of a divine Name is the shadow of that Name, his soul is its epiphanic form (mazhar). But in recognizing that this is so the servant does not negate his own existence. There is indeed a hadith concerning the servant who never ceases to move closer to his Lord his Lord says of him 'I am his hearing by which he hears, his eyesight by which he sees... ' This servant does not become what he was not what happens is that the 'luminous shadow' becomes increasingly transparent. Moreover, the possessive adjective 'his' refers explicitly to the reality of the servant or rather presupposes it.
Quotes about his (11 Quotes)
Tomorrow's God says that every church is 'his church,' and every faith is 'her faith,' and every soul is God's soul, because it shares the same soul with God ... And no person or living thing in the universe stands outside the community of God.
Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to
You could go into the Boston rink and guys would get assists sitting on the bench. They'd throw them out like candy. ... Now it's more precise. Now they video it and replay it. I think the players too say, 'I didn't touch that' or 'It was his.' Because a lot of times you can't tell if it ticks a stick or just goes by.
They have chiseled on my stone the words:
'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man.
This forces you to convert 'her bills' and 'his bills' into 'our bills' and encourages unity and communication in the marriage. I know very few financially successful people who have separate lives and separate checking accounts. If you want a life of your own, you shouldn't get married.
Although Einstein enjoyed almost universal acclaim in his day, history has exalted his genius still further by forgetting those few detractors who did exist. . . . Herbert Ives, a physicist for Bell Laboratories, remained unshakeably opposed to relativity, though the Ives-Stillwell experiment which bears his name is generally interpreted as a direct corroboration of Einstein's theory 'His Ives' work on the so-called tranverse Doppler effect, performed with Stillwell in the period 1938-41, is one of three crucial optical experiments which, taken together, lead inductively to the Lorentz transformations as used in the special theory of relativity in a sense it, more than either of the two, may be considered as the cornerstone of the special principle of relativity, as formulated years before by Einstein. . . .' (Howard P. Robertson, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, 1956) 'The 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light is not merely 'ununderstandable', it is not supported by 'objective matters of fact' it is untenable, and, as we shall see, unnecessary. . . . Also of philosophical import is that with the abandonment of the 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light, the geometries which have been based on it, with their fusion of space and time, must be denied their claim to be a true description of the physical world.'
John loved this community and he loved the people he wrote about. In his eyes and in his heart, he viewed all the kids he covered as 'his kids.' He was a great talent, but an even better person. Through the Daily Light John Hicks Memorial Scholarship, we can help John pass the torch that he carried so well.
Indeed as Jalaluddin Rumi also says, each of our eternal individualities is a word, a divine Word, emitted by the Breath of Divine Compassion. When this Word penetrates the mystic's heart... that is, when the 'secret of his Lord' unfolds to his consciousness, when divine inspiration invests his heart and soul, 'his nature is such that there is born within him a spiritual Child (walad manawi) having the breath of Christ which resuscitates the dead.'
When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here' And the Woman said 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.