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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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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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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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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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Aim Ego See Something Ultimate
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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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