“Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?”

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- “Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- “Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.