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.
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe β "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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