The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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