It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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