Best Mysticism Quotes
183 Mysticism quotes by 125 unique authors
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Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
— George Santayana
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
— Thomas Browne
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
— George Santayana
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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our…
— Thomas Browne
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
— Tennessee Williams
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To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.
— Irwin Edman
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
— George Will
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Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they…
— Heraclitus
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
— Bertrand Russell
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream…
— Gelett Burgess
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Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.
— Thomas Browne
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Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
— George Santayana
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion…
— Fritjof Capra
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely…
— Vernon Howard
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I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it…
— Florence Nightingale
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Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
— Sylvia Fraser
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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
— Angus Wilson
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When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.
— Ostad Elahi
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