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.
From Muhammad Iqbal
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.
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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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.
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.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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