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" Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. "

" 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. "

" Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? "

" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "

" I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. "

" Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. "

" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "

" Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. "

" 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. "

" The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. "

" Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. "

" 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. "

" I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. "

" The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. "

" Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. "

" 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. "

" Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. "

" The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. "

" Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "