The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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 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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