Mysticism Quotes

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Myst...

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether...

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a w...

When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind ...

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all rom...

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness ...

The conventional term is "mystical experience," meaning something that by its very nature lies beyon...

That's what "meaning" is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid ...

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know yo...

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States...

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological th...

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...

It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...

There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and medita...

Although we cannot attain Jesus in his fullness unless at the same time we also take into account hi...

Lovers of God possess intense concentration. In prayer their attention rivets itself so completely o...

When Nureyev appeared in San Francisco not long ago there were quite a few ballet fans who flew all ...

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, exc...

What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle...

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely in...

Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic tr...

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultifi...

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceas...

the night of thought is the light of perception.

True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the on...

Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of hi...

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poign...

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I ...

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in ...

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...

And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not...

Beryl: Beryl is a warm gemstone which develops, between the third hour and midday, from the foam of ...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally ac...

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

A Super-Integral Spirituality has all the features of an Integral Spirituality, plus, among other th...

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement o...

It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the m...

Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the...

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hi...

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious exper...

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless kno...

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when yo...

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there ma...

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of th...

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of deli...

The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon’s bright path across the water, and t...

the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that s...

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he nea...

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ...

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for...

There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imaginat...

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, t...

I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I coul...

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses ...

The embodiment of his mystic precepts, he appeared at any given moment to be on the verge of an amaz...

Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their ...

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an ...

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

Sometimes, down in the subway, a train Maxine's riding on will slowly be overtaken by a local or an ...

...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your ...

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to...

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jag...

The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic t...

Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic...

Mystical organizations are only a crystallization of facts which can be found, in a more diffuse and...

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no di...

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in e...

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.Pink dragonflies fall from the airand become scorp...

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth lik...

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for myst...