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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible… — Joseph Conrad
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the… — Hans Hofmann
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far… — Aldous Huxley
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. — Muhammad Iqbal
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a… — Muhammad Iqbal
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their… — Soren Kierkegaard
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. — Robert Wyatt
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… — E. M. Forster
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The… — Abraham Lincoln
I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions. — Rumi
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. — Stephen King
I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of… — Anais Nin
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and… — David Bohm
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out… — Jack Kerouac
It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who… — Graham Greene
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. — Karl Rahner
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet… — Abraham Lincoln
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath… — Lewis Carroll
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them… — Dennis Lehane
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his… — Nathaniel Branden

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