The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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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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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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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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