A Quote by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-`Arabi on ability, experience, life, reality, relationships, and spirituality

Ibn 'Arabi was above all the disciple of Khidr {an invisible master}. . . such a relationship with a hidden spiritual master lends the disciple an essentially "transhistorical" dimension and presupposes an ability to experience events which are enacted in a reality other than the physical reality of daily life, events which spontaneously transmute themselves into symbols.