It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Since 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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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 never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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