It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWater before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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