Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALAnother 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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 the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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