Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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