“two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.” — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.” — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology… — Erich Fromm 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
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
The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager.… — Reid Scott Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“No soul in the world is without a particular mission to perform and accomplish, and the misery of every soul is in… — The Hand of Poetry Five Mystic Poets of Persia Translations from the Poems of Sanai Attar Rumi Saadi Copy Share Image
Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe… — William Henry Hudson 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
Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Zen Buddhism, for example, as practiced by Suzuki, the excellent Japanese mystic, has nothing to do with the superstitious and predjudiced Buddhism… — Marcelo Ramos Motta Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“When you sacrifice logic at the altar of mysticism, your journey is bound to be brief.” — Eduvie Donald Copy Share Image
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“To place Jesus Christ in the class of mystics is an insult to the Highest.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
