Mystics Quotes
68 quotes by 54 authors
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The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and…
— Annie Besant
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Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics,…
— Fritjof Capra
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There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers…
— Rajneesh
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And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more…
— Anthony de Mello
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Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the…
— Karen Armstrong
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You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that…
— Anthony de Mello
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,…
— John Fowles
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Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,…
— Michio Kaku
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Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
— Sol LeWitt
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives…
— Peter Medawar
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When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated…
— Paulo Coelho
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The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily…
— Oliver Lodge
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and…
— Fritjof Capra
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And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the…
— Adam Zagajewski
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who…
— Wilhelm Reich
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The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the…
— Ken Wilber
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The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and…
— Ken Wilber
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