Imaginal Love

Then, when we are most literal, most stuck, most in pain, we can know that all of it, all the confusion and anguish is being held within that larger, more fluid and meaningful whole.

his most accessible and perhaps finest book, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabī.

What has to go is the overwhelming sense of personal significance that comes with anima,

Corbin said to me one time, “What is wrong with the Islamic world is that it has destroyed its images, and without these images that are so rich in its tradition, they are going crazy because they have no containers for their extraordinary imaginative power.”

Cranz said that our mode of thought “is

nothing is literal – nothing is only what it seems on the surface. Everything has depth, breadth, and extended reference.

different from, even alien to, all previous thought, and … there is nothing normative, or even normal, about it, or us.”

You have to be able to suspend your own viewpoint, and your own emotional reactions.

we don’t always need to dig deep, to furrow our brows and plunge into the depths to find the poetic shimmer in the world.

The deep interiority and objective reality of the Temple is the most important thing for Corbin.