By: Al-Ghazali, a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian descent.
Know that the #body is like a town and the intellect of the mature human being is like a king ruling that town. All the forces of the external and internal senses he can muster are like his soldiers and his aides.
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Al-Ghazali writes that every person is born with a “knowing pain in the #soul” resulting from a disconnection from the Ultimate #Reality. The tragic condition of #Man is that our eyes have been so distracted by physical things and pleasure, that we have lost the ability to see the unseen. This is why people are so unhappy: they are trying to relieve this pain in the soul by recourse to physical #pleasure. But physical pleasure cannot relieve a pain that is essentially #spiritual. The only answer to our condition is a pleasure which comes not from the body but from self-knowledge.
