Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental. — Frederick Lenz 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
Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?” — Peter Washington 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
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
I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland… — Michael Billig Copy Share Image
Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to… — Frederick Lenz 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
“From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I guess I will say, going back to the Judaism questions, there are mental reflexes or patterns that I think of as… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give. Reincarnation need… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let us tread upon this path to this supreme Godhead practically and step by step, beginning from the lowest sphere, to arrive… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of… — Bob Hamilton Copy Share Image
“...on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you've shaken your head, muttering such criticisms… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is… — Dennis Gabor Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“WE say then- that the Cause of all, which is above all, is neither without being, nor without life----nor with- out reason,… — Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Copy Share Image
“A Super-Integral Spirituality has all the features of an Integral Spirituality, plus, among other things, an inherent conjunction of each stage with… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.” — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
“A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate Love's nature only love can demonstrate” — Rumi Copy Share Image
“What's wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one's way at every step?” — Irina Serban Copy Share Image
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
