Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy 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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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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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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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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 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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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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