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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Character, Imagination

  "The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics" edited by Frederick C. Beiser, (p. 131), 1996.

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• I love mysticism - it's such fun.

  Jerry Hall

  Fun

  Interview with Steve Lafreniere, www.indexmagazine.com. 2005.

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• Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Hero, Artist, Blood

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.

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• What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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• A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wind, Life Is, Easily Influenced

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• If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Mystical Experiences, Ready, Ifs

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• In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Perception, Fields

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• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Mankind, Poet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, BookBaby

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• What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Spirituality, Divine

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• Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Faces, Tenacity, Individual

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• Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Passionate, Longing

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.

  Frederick Lenz

  Life Changing, Simple, Self

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• If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Successful, People, Losing

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• Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.173, Prestwick House Inc

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• I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

  Rob Bell

  Practice, Knows, Militant

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• It is not advisable to hasten development, because everything needs time. Patience, perseverance and tenacity are fundamental conditions of the development. The pains taken in one's development will be amply rewarded.

  Franz Bardon

  Perseverance, Pain, Taken

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• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Men, Self

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

  Florence Nightingale

  Unseen, Holiness, Divine

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.578, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive! And ignore those who aren't, because they're obviously confused, and out of touch with light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Confused, Optimistic, Light

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• Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

  Richard Rohr

  Substitutes, Moralism

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• Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Giving, Energy

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• A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Christian, Buddhist, Laughter

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.57, New World Library

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• All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's own mind of thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Sides, Visible

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Serious, Endeavor

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