Corbin that “ultimately what we call physis and the physical is but the reflection of the world of the Soul; there is no pure physics, but always the physics of some definite psychic activity.” [17]

He said to me once that as he sat lost in contemplation over those ancient texts, sometimes he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to get back.

More often the Angel appears to us in our communication, our communion, with other people. We have to learn to listen to people.

Corbin died in 1978, the year of Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in Iran. I assume that Iranian unrest provides the context for Corbin’s remarks.

It is the world we are engaged in saving ‒ not ourselves, not my individual soul.

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

Knowledge, whether granted freely via Revelation or gained with the cooperation of human intellect, is a result of illumination from above, not the culmination of a process of abstraction, deduction, or induction from the “data” of sense perception.

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 goal of incarnate life is to be in love with the world.