When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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.
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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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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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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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