Mysticism Quotes - Page 7

• The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Obsession, Push Yourself

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• [P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Zero, Mean

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• Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Buddhist, Night, Flames

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• Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Real, Men

  Evelyn Underhill (2017). “The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Dragons, Insanity

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.84, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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• A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Energy, Losing

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• No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Shifting

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• Self-discovery is a very advanced art. What we're doing basically is screwing around with what you're made up of. We're taking awarenesses, feelings, ideas and impressions and changing them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Discovery, Self

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• I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

  Frederick Lenz

  Organization, Elements, Body

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• To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Destiny, Games

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• Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more into your life. It doesn't matter what works or doesn't. It is all individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Add, Matter, Gaining Power

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• It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Examination, Matter

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• Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, People, Pieces

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• Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, People, Pieces

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• It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Gaining Power, Draining

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• What will increase one person's personal power will not necessarily be the same for another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Gaining Power, Increase, Personal Power

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• There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Gaining Power, Problem

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• When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fall, Cutting, Gaining Power

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• Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to make us afraid. It is time to unload the baggage.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Baggage, Gaining Power

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• Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Common Sense, Overcoming, Gaining Power

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• How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Fearless, Overcoming

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