Mikhail Naimy Quotes & Sayings

As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form.. — Mikhail Naimy

No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.
No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.
No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed
more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh. — Mikhail Naimy

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

Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives it s all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, to-morrow and forevermore. — Mikhail Naimy

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

Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his
talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who
attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of
you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does. — Mikhail Naimy

Less possessing-less possessed.
More possessing-more possessed.
More possessed-less accessed.
Less possessed-more accessed. — Mikhail Naimy

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. — Mikhail Naimy

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight. — Mikhail Naimy

If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze. — Mikhail Naimy

How easy it is to mock, how hard it is to understand! Yet mockery has ever mocked the mocker. — Mikhail Naimy

Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
Unity and Holy Understanding — Mikhail Naimy

Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth. — Mikhail Naimy

Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold. — Mikhail Naimy

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

Be steady. Make ready. Keep your eyes, and ears, and tongues on fast so that your hearts may know that holy hunger which, once appeased, leaves you forever full. You — Mikhail Naimy

God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For god is Light, and Light alone is able to know Light. — Mikhail Naimy

To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course ! — Mikhail Naimy

A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought ... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience ... — Mikhail Naimy

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. — Mikhail Naimy

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. — Mikhail Naimy

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise. — Mikhail Naimy

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving. — Mikhail Naimy

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

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

All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow. — Mikhail Naimy

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.You are
the tree of Life. Beware of fractionating yourselves. Set not a fruit against a fruit, a leaf against a leaf, a bough against a bough; nor
set the stem against the roots; nor set the tree against the mother-
soil. That is precisely what you do when you love one part more than
the rest, or to the exclusion of the rest. No love is possible except
by the love of self. No self is real save the All-embracing Self.
Therefore is God all Love, because he loves himself. So long as you
are pained by Love, you have not found your real self, nor have you
found the golden key of Love. Because you love an ephemeral self, your
love is ephemeral. — Mikhail Naimy