God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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