The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALYet 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.
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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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.
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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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