Mystics Quotes

68 Mystics quotes by 53 unique authors

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since… — Ayn Rand
Quantum mechanics, that brilliantly successful flagship theory of modern science, is deeply mysterious and hard to understand. Eastern mystics have always been deeply mysterious and… — Richard Dawkins
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love… — Eknath Easwaran
What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is… — Amit Goswami
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid… — Warren Zevon
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they… — Ayn Rand
The great and rare mystics of the past . . . were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In… — Ken Wilber
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, — Ayn Rand
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made,… — Peter Kreeft
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with… — Peter Kreeft
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving inwards. It is… — Rajneesh
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a… — Ayn Rand
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired… — Paul Brunton
Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to… — Tama J. Kieves
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which… — Martin Buber
The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet… — Madeleine L'Engle
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them. — Ram Dass
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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