The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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