The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“True psycho-emotional exploration, rooted in desire (what I call BioSpirituality), replaces metaphysical story telling with the real thing.” — Zzenn Copy Share Image
... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said:… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar, Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar. English Translation. Oh Khusrau, the… — Amir Khusrau Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries,… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Fears are just conditioning. They don't exist. They are something that we are taught by people who are afraid or seek to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living,… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the… — John Smith Copy Share Image
No one's lazy. What we would call the laziest person on earth expends a tremendous amount of energy to not do things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid. You are as alive as anything else is alive. Your right to be alive is as great as the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands. — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
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![“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives…” quote by E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d0/e-o-wilson-1348_art_p-rescientific-people-could-never-guess_717283.jpg)
![“Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!” quote by Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/847/malcolm-muggeridge-2370_birth_sex-is-the-mysticism-of-a-materialistic_1326049.png)
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