Mysticism Quotes - Page 19

• There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.

  Jean Piaget

  Religious, Children, Unique

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Philosophy, Views, Practice

  Katsuki Sekida (2005). “Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy”, p.211, Shambhala Publications

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• To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

  Thomas Ligotti

  Memories, Dark, Hysteria

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Ideas, Perception

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• Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Circles, World, Body

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• I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Buddhism, Psychics

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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• Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Logic, Process

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man without mysticism is a monster.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Monsters

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.83, Regnery Publishing

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• Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Exploration, States

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• Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dying, Showers, Walks

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• The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

  Mark Gatiss

  Real, Thinking, Horror Stories

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• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

  Alex Turner

  Thinking, Batteries, Caps

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• This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Light

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• In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Study

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• Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Art, Soul, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.143, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Different, Needs

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• Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Perception

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• As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spirit, Individual, Reincarnation

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• In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opposites, People, Culture

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• Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Use, Way

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• An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving, Shapes

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• In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Teacher, Buddhism

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