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Quotes from The Book of Mirdad — Mikha'il Na'ima

1889–1988 Lebanon

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11 quotes

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

How much more infinite a sea is Man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think that you have found his borders.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

Love is the Law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

To feed on Death is to become food for Death. To live by others' pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the Omniwill. Know that and choose your course, Micayon.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

While the non-yearner grasps for more and yet more things to put away in his pocket or belly, the yearner walks his way without a pocket, and with a belly clean of any creature's blood and convulsions.

The Book of Mirdad (1948)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mikha'il Na'ima (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.