The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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 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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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