It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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