When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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