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 IQBALSince 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.
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 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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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 have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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