Imaginal Love

Perhaps we can think of fundamentalism as a stifling, an asphyxiation, and constipation of the soul.

There was a progressive distancing of the relation between the written sign and the world to which it refers during the long development of writing from pictographs to alphabetic scripts.

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.

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

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

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

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.”

the creative and active Imagination. It is the exercise of this faculty, conceived not as a merely human attribute but as continuous with the creative power of the world, that provides the means by which the intensive self can escape from its prison and enter that wider, more-than-human world.

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]

perception is hardly the passive reception of sensory data that the empiricists believed but is soaked with emotion and guided by the images that flood the psyche.