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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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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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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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 immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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