Mysticism Quotes - Page 2

• Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical

  Two Sources of Morality and Religion ch. 3 (1932) (translation by R. Ashley Audra and Cloudesley Brereton)

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• Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Guilt, Cash

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.332, Penguin

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• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Individual, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1965). “Selected essays, lectures, and poems”, Pocket Books

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• If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.

  Devendra Banhart

  Beautiful, Real, Sensitivity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Prayer, Long

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• What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Mean

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

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

  Heraclitus

  People, Encounters, Spirituality

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• Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Unique, Men

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.

  Vernon Howard

  Reality, Light, Healthy

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• The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essence, Unity, Intuition

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• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Philosophy, Passion, School

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

  Vernon Howard

  Water, Tables, Cups

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

  William Butler Yeats

  Past, Disrespect, Catholic

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• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Inspiration, Writing, Cat

  Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Humility

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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• In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Mad, Logic

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

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• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Religion, Materialistic

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Christopher Ralling (1967). “Muggeridge through the microphone: B.B.C. radio and television”, Not Avail

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• We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, One Day, Degrees

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• Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

  Salvador Dali

  Money, Saving Money, Glory

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• The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Art, Analysis, Vibrations

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Mysticism of Sound, Music, The Power of the Word, Cosmic Language”, Library of Alexandria

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Past, Disrespect

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• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

  Aldous Huxley

  Travel, Heart, Cutting

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Overcoming, Gaining Power, Lists

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• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Literature, Kind

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