Mysticism Quotes

• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Disappointment, Eye

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Engagement, Finest

  "After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration". Book by Peter Barker, Cecil G. Shugart (p. 179), 1981.

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• I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.

  Coleman Barks

  Growing Up, Rivers, Waiting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

  Florence Nightingale

  Diversity, Heaven, Inward

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self, Spirit, Figures

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

  Meister Eckhart

  World, May, Language

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• There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Feelings, Who We Are

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• Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Overcoming, Separation, Natural

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• The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Secret, Helping

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1908.

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Reality, Unions

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.10, Aeterna Press

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• I have always been psychic. The walls of any room I walk into talk to me.

  Ethel Waters

  Wall, Psychics, Rooms

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• A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.

  Richard Rohr

  Believe, Humility, Self Confidence

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• Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Body, Spirituality

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.150, Рипол Классик

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• Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Doe, World

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• A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Facts, Mystic, Persons

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  Otto Rank

  Future, Creativity, Civilization

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• The business and method of mysticism is love.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Method

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Spirituality, Achieve

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.205, Vintage

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• Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

  Bertrand Russell

  Essence, Feelings, Depth

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.9, Bertrand Russell

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• All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Country, Language, Speak

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• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Acceptance

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• Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Today, Tomorrow

  "A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media". Playboy Interview with Eric Norden, March 1969.

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• Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.

  Vernon Howard

  Reality, Want, Pseudo

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