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Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. — Rabindranath Tagore
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. — Anthony de Mello
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
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
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms… — Jack London
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as… — Emile M. Cioran
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy… — Tom Robbins
Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a… — Lois McMaster Bujold
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know… — Annie Dillard
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion… — Carl Sagan
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. — Rumi
Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. — Caroline Myss
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with… — Richard Rohr
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. — Meister Eckhart
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of… — Karl Marx
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or… — Robin Ince
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. — Ferdinand Marcos
Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands. — Shea Hembrey

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