The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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