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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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