Scentient Quotes- Inspirations (bien) senties

L'odorat est le sens de l'imagination

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"smell is the sense of imagination”

For my life is yet whole in me
and the spirit of God is in my nostrils

Job 27:2-4 (ASV)

In every breath
love comes calling
from every way

Rumi

Heresy to the heretic and religion to the orthodox
The rose petal belongs to the heart of the perfumer

Shaikh Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak 

Rousseau J.J. In: Emile, ou l’éducation. Rousseau J.J., editor. J. Néaulme; La Haye: 1762. Livre second. L’âge de nature: de 2 à 12 ans, p. 250.

Rumi - Diwan & Shams, Ghazal 463, 1 : 269-27

Shaikh Abu'l-Fazl  is to be read through a mystical - sufi - lens: the perfume that rises from the rose petal is like the longing after God in the heart of the true seeker. The seeker is compared to the perfumer, who is, according to the author, beyond heresy and beyond orthodoxy.