“It is said that we live, move and have our being in God.”

—  Aga Khan III

Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)
Context: It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct [spiritual] experience.

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48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community 1877–1957

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