Developing countries Quote by Abhijit Naskar

“A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal…

— Anonymous

“But the purpose of philosophy is to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no…

— Oscar Wilde

“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.”

— Yukio Mishima

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

— Elie Wiesel

“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more than a…

— Fr. Augustine Baker

“two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.”

— William Ralph Inge

“Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling…

— D.T. Suzuki

“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a…

— John Shelby Spong

“Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.”

— Karl Marx

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill