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“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
“Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?”
“Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.”
“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.”
“Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you a storm! The voyage of your life is on too placid an ocean…”
“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.”
“But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.”
“I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.”
“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
“I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.”
“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
“Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.”
“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”
“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.”
“Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.”
“The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.”
“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”