“We are all caught in natural and social frameworks, subject to an overwhelming abundance of challenges and enticements that prevent us from… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more… — Fr. Augustine Baker Copy Share Image
In mysticism we reorder those awarenesses. We combine and recombine them endlessly. We assemble them so we can experience aspects of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
“Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said:… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Copy Share Image
“Be silent like a rock, deeply rooted and straight like a tree, bend like a reed in the wind, listen to the… — Irina Serban Copy Share Image
A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“True psycho-emotional exploration, rooted in desire (what I call BioSpirituality), replaces metaphysical story telling with the real thing.” — Zzenn Copy Share Image
The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Start to give more thought to the world around you. Stop exposing yourself to situations that drain your energy. You will discover… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I now believe in the power of feeling my vibrant soul-self. In this space there is always love. In this space I… — Jodi Livon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The real problem is not increasing your energy. The problem is losing it. If you stop the loss and you simply meditate,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Prayer is a many fingered and kaleidoscopic thing—it folds and unfolds inside of you. It enters the many rooms you cannot enter.” — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
“Today I choose self acceptance. Today I choose to walk in the direction of simply what feels good to me. Today I… — Jodi Livon Copy Share Image
I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image