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Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination.... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and of causing to exist,... The organ of Prayer is the heart, the psychospiritual organ, with its concentration of energy, its himma.... Prayer is a "creator" of vision,....

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin

Born: April 14, 1903
Died: October 7, 1978 (aged 75)
Bio: Henry Corbin was a philosopher, theologian and professor of Islamic Studies at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, France.
Known for:
  1. The man of light in Iranian sufism (1978)
  2. Swedenborg and esoteric Islam
  3. Avicenna and the visionary recital (1960)
  4. The voyage and the messenger

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