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

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" It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. "

" 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. "

" I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. "

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

" The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. "

" 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. "

" The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. "

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

" 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. "

" Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. "

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

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