let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
Interpretation
This quote encourages moving beyond limitations and exploring new potentials together with others.
In this quote, Muhammad Iqbal speaks to the transformative power of awakening one's mind and spirit. He invites us to break free from stagnation, to embrace new experiences and insights that may lie beyond our immediate perception, and to uplift ourselves and each other in the pursuit of knowledge and growth, much like a falcon that soars high, representing freedom, unity, and shared aspirations.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a team meeting to motivate colleagues to explore new ideas and collaborate.
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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 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.
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom
Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh", said Hagrid. “Harry — yer a wizard.
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