Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.

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

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

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.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life - into a capacity to love people we are not taught to love - and into an ability to be who we are.

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.