The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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