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.
Interpretation
Understanding life as a coherent whole takes time and is influenced by a society's engagement with global events.
In this quote, Muhammad Iqbal suggests that developing a holistic understanding of life is a gradual process that requires a collective awareness and involvement in the significant happenings of the world. This perception is not innate but rather cultivated through shared experiences and connections to larger societal trends and transformations.
In practice
In a discussion about cultural awareness, one might say, 'As Muhammad Iqbal pointed out, understanding life as an organic unity takes time.'
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.
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.
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.
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo β even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
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