“On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk… — Mary Rose O'Reilley 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
Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as… — Marilynne Robinson 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
You can reshuffle yourself. You can make yourself into anybody you want to be. — Frederick Lenz 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
Winning is based to a certain extent upon personal power. If you have enough personal power you tend to win. If you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory. — Albert Einstein 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
Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has]… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin Copy Share Image
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge 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
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism."… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
