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• You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Needs, Shelter

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• Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Personal Knowledge, Hands, Practice

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• The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, People, Energy

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• The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.

  Frederick Lenz

  United States, Way To Live, Debt

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• If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Losing, Losing Power, Ifs

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• As your power level goes down, you will become physically ill.

  Frederick Lenz

  Levels, Losing, Ill

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• When our power level is down sufficiently, we die.

  Frederick Lenz

  Levels, Losing, Dies

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• There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Character, Soul

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.102

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• The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"

  Anthony de Mello

  Eye, Reality, Expression

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 131, 1992.

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• Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

  Iain Banks

  Accounting

  "Excession" by Iain Banks, Bantam Books hardcover edition, (p. 364), 1996.

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• I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

  Marsden Hartley

  Essence, Landscape, Saws

  Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, James Timothy Voorhies (2002). “My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915”, p.58, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Truth, Reality, Shapes

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• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Facts, Spirit

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• Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Real, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.94, Bertrand Russell

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• We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

  George Will

  Spiritual, Children, Tests

  George F. Will (1986). “The morning after: American successes and excesses, 1981-1986”, Free Pr

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• As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical

  "The Turning Point". Book by Fritjof Capra, www.juwing.sp.ru. 1982.

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• To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

  Irwin Edman

  Evil, Spirit, Modern

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• The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spirituality, Cry, Cried

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• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

  Saadi

  Soul, Body, Spirituality

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• Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

  Aesop

  Wine, Vintage, Spirituality

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• Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

  George Santayana

  Real, Soul, Spirituality

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirituality, Mystery, Divine

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.214, CUP Archive

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• Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, People, Everyday

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• Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Places To Go, Mystery

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