Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
Ibn ArabiThe ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light
Ibn ArabiNone but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover โ and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover
Ibn Arabi