But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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.
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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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Another 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.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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