The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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