“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.” — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The way we measure awareness is by how long you can stop thought. If you can't stop thought at all, then you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is necessary to store power to be free. Right now you are in the gravity field of many different people in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Questioner: One question comes to my mind: if everybody looked inward, what would happen? Sadhguru: You would have a sensible world. (Laughs)… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You must have tremendous power of focus to direct your life and not allow all these variant forces, different vibrations, to enter… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“All mysticism is part of the endeavor to escape from this fate of language that serves the exercise of power, control, and… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“A smart person, one who perhaps had her mind filled with religious ideas as a child but who recognizes that genuine mysteries… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“As long as man was in the moolight he desired to reach the moon…there was bliss in the moonlight but the moon… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
“When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
“If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody.… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image