I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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God is not a dead equation!
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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