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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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