Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALConduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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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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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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