Mysticism Quotes - Page 10

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

  Abraham Kuyper

  Heart, Hands, World

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.188, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

  Jeff Mangum

  Pain, Nice, Buddhism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter version, and you have that in this prequel. It's paying homage, very much, to that.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Scary, Carpenter, Realms

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; its from another century, its not for today.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Religious, War, Believe

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• The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

  Unknown

  Philosophy, Nihilism, Revolution

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• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.

  Henry Corbin

  Sadness, Knights, Essence

  Henry Corbin (1998). “The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy”, p.223, North Atlantic Books

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• Things that are impossible - are everyday experiences when you live in advanced states of mind. You live in a world of constant miraculous awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Everyday, Mind, World

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• All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.

  A. E. Waite

  Law, Humanity, Development

  Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books

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• Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

  Henri Nouwen

  Special People, People, Special

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.

  Jacques Loeb

  Science, Discovery, Alcohol

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• Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories examples of ecstatic union with God, which seem at odds with their own spiritual traditions but have much in common with each other.

  Tony Campolo

  Spiritual, Odds, Islam

  Tony Campolo (2005). “Speaking My Mind: The Radical Evangelical Prophet Tackles the Tough Issues Christians Are Afraid to Face”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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• Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Generations, Might, Enough

  "Orgonotic Pulsation in International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research", Vol. 3, No. 1, March, 1944.

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• The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.

  Franz Bardon

  Air, Fire, Water

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• Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Simple, Thinking

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• I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Ideas

  I-D Magazine Interview, 1996.

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• Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

  Tom Robbins

  Enemy, Facts, Honest

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.166, Bantam

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• Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Nature, Miracle, Spirituality

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• When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

  Ostad Elahi

  Religious, Saint, Prophet

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• Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

  Thomas Browne

  Dying, Fruition, Satisfaction

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.185

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• According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

  Franz Bardon

  Views, Law, Magic

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• One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Firsts, Magician

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• In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.

  Franz Bardon

  Reality, Views, Evil

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• All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

  Angus Wilson

  Believe, People, Magic

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