In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
quote by Muhammed Iqbal

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Give the command for Your war
Never in the time that I exist
did You declared human secrets
like now to me, things intertwined so deep,
given to me with illustrious meaning
enable me to become aware of the true facts
of mighty people threatening me and my nation
and there are pain and sorrow everywhere
give the command for Your war, as I have to reveal Your will.
Everyone wants a bit of happiness, an own little place
and now the smudging clouds are rolling away like fog
and without any fear You want me to go
with big and sincere pity
to them that are the enemies of me and my nation,
in spite of resistance, to go to them
to warn them, to spell your sentence out,
give the command for Your war, as I have to reveal Your will.
Lord these people do not fear You,
they are caught up in modern knowledge,
believe that You do not exist, are only a myth
but now I will put it straightforward with all inherent meaning:
I have irrefutable prescience that destruction waits
and this is not something that I allege
and the coming disaster is unknown in world history
give the command for Your war, as I have to reveal Your will.
l’Envoi
Lord God, if these oppressors do not come to repentance,
then let Your judgement fall, if they do not pray to You.
Almighty Lord, loosen Your winds to destroy,
give the command for Your war, as I have to reveal Your will.
poem by Gert Strydom

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
(words & music by ewan maccoll)
The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies my love
To the dark and the empty skies
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hands
Like a trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command
Hoa hoa hoa oh oh oh oh oh oh
Woh oh oh oh hoa hoa hoa
Oh hoa hoa hoa hoa hoa hoa
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hands
Like a trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command
Hoa hoa hoa oh oh oh oh oh oh
Woh oh oh oh hoa hoa hoa
Oh hoa hoa hoa hoa hoa hoa
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command
song performed by by Elvis Presley

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I Reside in Your Head
I reside in your head I am in command
with camerae eye that can click a billion
reasons to do, to love, to hate,
to sign a truce or go to war,
or feel a single grain of sand.
I cast the net over your mind
as you surf thru your life,
Innate action with no command, no thought,
bats your eyes and beats your heart,
as loves wonder you have to find.
A crossed path in the sunday park
You see her face, the one,
the very first sight of her stops dead
my control of you.
Your eyesight’s both fuse loving the fusions spark,
A connection of divinity heralds,
something far stronger than a nice first sight.
Love is in the air I’m losing command,
you touch and smile and call her Judy,
love connects you both dear Gerald
which you accept for I am
yourself
poem by Ken e Hall

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10/31/2007 Command Post Controller
I work in the command post,
You wouldn’t know there everywhere from coast to coast.
We work while everyone else is wake and sleeping,
We do things that help our nations safe keeping.
No one understands the command post because,
No one fully grasps what the command post does.
Know this though,
Controllers are at work even in the snow.
Holidays we are still here,
24-7 every day of the year.
I work in the command post,
Family I miss the most.
But I don’t gripe nor complain,
I’m proud to serve I have no shame.
Next time your working your nine to five,
Remember controllers actions help keep you alive.
When you lay your head down and asleep you drift,
Remember a command post controller is still on shift.
poem by Coreena Dejesus

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You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
quote by Bob Nelson

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Decide You Will Lead
You can choose to remove confusion.
You can also refuse to accept to lose...
With a bit of hope used and faith proven.
Anything done to do to prove to oneself...
Is possible to touch and see happen.
You can choose to remove confusion,
And a doubting mood that comes to bother you...
To restrict with a bitter attitude,
To stay fixed in a temperment...
Leaving you to pout in solitude.
Anything is possible.
Even having the patience to wait to see grass grow.
Anything is possible.
If you do not try,
How will you know?
Take a stand,
And command...
With a decision to lead.
And you can.
You can.
Take a stand,
And command...
With a decision to lead.
And you can.
You can.
Anything is possible,
Decide you will lead.
And you can.
You can.
Anything is possible,
Decide you will lead.
And you can.
You can.
Take a stand,
And command...
You'll take the lead.
And you can.
You can.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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Every Life Form
Every life form that lives on this Planet serves Nature in some sort of a way
And no life form in truth is vermin despite what some do think or say
Each life form is there for some purpose whatever that purpose may be
For the worth of each individual species ask one with more knowledge of Nature than me
In a World of over six billion people the pressure on Nature's life forms is great
Pollution and destruction of habitat of many life forms have sealed the fate
Removal of trees for development, pollution of air, sea and land
It surely is at our own peril if Nature we don't try to understand
For human pollution of the environment the price for us all huge to pay
More water-ways are being polluted more trees are removed every day
When we disrespect our natural environment disrespect for ourselves we do show
With a huge rise in carbon emissions so little of Nature we know
Every life form that lives on the Planet serves Nature in some sort of a way
And no life form in truth is vermin despite what some do think or say.
poem by Francis Duggan

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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
quote by James Allen

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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
quote by Charles Horton Cooley

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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.
quote by Muhammed Iqbal

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A Praise, A Prayer
Cherisher, sustainer, providence,
Nobody is like Thee,
Oneness is Thy quality,
Thou art the Master of all the worlds,
Omnipotent, Omniscient
And Omnipresent thou are,
Thou make, Thou mar,
Reward,
retribution
everything is in Thy
Hands,
Who will escape from Thee?
Yet they don't think and
impose war on the poor,
The entire land belongs to thee,
Thou art the unconditional King,
Everyone is at thy service,
Satan is thine, men are thine
And of course angels,
All of them are occupied with their duties,
Satan to spread evil,
And men to save themselves,
Angels are writing their accounts,
Thy ultimate command brings in the world,
The cycle of day and night,
Life and death,
Fortune and misfortune.
O my Lord!
Make the world Thy heaven of peace,
And show them the path of righteousness,
Who have made your world worse than hell.Cherisher, sustainer, providence,
Nobody is like Thee,
Oneness is Thy quality,
Thou art the Master of all the worlds,
Omnipotent, Omniscient
And Omnipresent thou are,
Thou make, Thou mar,
Reward,
retribution
everything is in Thy
Hands,
Who will escape from Thee?
Yet they don't think and
impose war on the poor,
The entire land belongs to thee,
Thou art the unconditional King,
Everyone is at thy service,
Satan is thine, men are thine
And of course angels,
All of them are occupied with their duties,
Satan to spread evil,
And men to save themselves,
Angels are writing their accounts,
Thy ultimate command brings in the world,
The cycle of day and night,
Life and death,
Fortune and misfortune.
O my Lord!
Make the world Thy heaven of peace,
And show them the path of righteousness,
Who have made your world worse than hell.
poem by Mohammad Akmal Nazir

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Command your wealth, else that will command you.
If you can command yourself, you can command the world.
Discipline Fresh Minds
submit not to mindless
religious chants
discipline fresh minds
with mysteries
of universal constants
explore thoughts
rational observances
expose rash errors
embrace discoveries
free entombed minds
poem by Terence George Craddock

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In My Command
You're standing in a deep dark hole
Beneath a sky as black as coal
It's just the fear of losing control
You know so well
Don't miss it when the moment comes
Be submissive just this once
Imagine there is something to be done
Some truth to tell
I would love
To trouble you in your time of need
Lose your way
It's a pleasure when you're in my command
Juggle like a diplomat
Struggle to hold onto your hat
Swinging like an acrobat
But time will tell
The clock is dripping on the wall
Listen to the rise and fall
Close your eyes and hear the call you know so well
Put on your wings
You're responsible for everything
Desolate in anger and safe in isolation
You're about to be the victim of a holy visitation
By the rites that I've been given
Put on your wings
You're not responsible for everything
I would love
To trouble you in your time of need
Lose your way
It's a pleasure when you're in my command
When you're in my command
In my command
song performed by by Crowded House

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The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

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You've Got to Let This Go
You want the upper hand.
You want to make demands.
You want it clear as crystal,
At your command.
But you've got to let this go!
You want the upper hand.
You want to make demands.
You want it clear as crystal,
At your command.
But you've got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
Then you want to fake a need,
That your need is there to please...
All the people,
That have you in a neck hold.
But you've got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
You want the upper hand.
But you've got to let this go!
You want to make demands.
Yes you've got to let this go!
And you want it clear as crystal,
At your command.
Then you want to fake a need,
That your need is there to please...
All the people,
That have you in a neck hold.
But,
You've...
Got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
You want the upper hand.
You want to make demands.
You want it clear as crystal,
At your command.
But you've got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
You want it clear as crystal,
At your command.
But you've got to let this go!
Yes you've got to let this go!
You want it clear as crystal,
At your command.
But you've got to let this go!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

Those who can command themselves command others.
quote by William Hazlitt

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