The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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