The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDivine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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