“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it odd that the same ratio that generates infinity also generates self-similarity?” — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“TODAY, I can choose what affects me, to not be afraid, to not let this break-up depress me, to look at mistakes… — Doobie Shemer Copy Share Image
When you deal with people, it tends to drag your energy down - if those people are in a lower auric state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom… — Wasif Ali Wasif Copy Share Image
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we,… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Religion is about experiencing, not believing; spiritual realities are either personally experienced, or not (yet). The word religion says it very well… — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure… — Reiner Stach Copy Share Image
Naturally you need someone who is versed in the ways of power to teach you a thing or two about it. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life—… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the… — Warren Sharpe Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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