When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of… — Frederick Lenz 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
“Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!” — 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: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace, I can only show you at night And hide half of… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have got to get your power up and do something and not just sit around. Always be optimistic. Always be positive!… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“We are, in many ways, the bastard children of Reason and Mysticism. Both have been banging away like libertines during the last… — Justin R. Achilli Copy Share Image
“Ever since I was in Amherst College I have remembered how Garman told his class in philosophy that if they would go… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond.… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and your life when you have it. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Avoid the things in your life that take away from your stillness. Find things that add to that stillness. Bring them more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Be a perpetual beginner. Always be inspired. It is that attitude of inspiration and belief that creates energy. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and… — Owen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
