All things Quote by Frederick Lenz

The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

— Frederick Lenz

“Mephistopheles' contentious, often ambiguous relationship to Faustus is a reference to tantra just as it is to alchemy. It resembles the shifting tactics of…

— Ramona Fradon

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

— Joseph Campbell

“In brief, the very quintessence of all meditative concentrations of both the sutras and the tantras of the great vehicle is to see, through…

— Karl Brunnholzl

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what…

— Bernard Malamud

Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and…

— Etienne Gilson

But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And…

— John Milton

“The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but…

— Helen Keller

“And it is said that each one of the numerous “stations” on the mystic path has a light of its own, and the mystic’s…

— Franz Rosenthal

When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined…

— Saint Basil

“The firelight touches and transfigures her face, and we see, concretely illustrated, the impossible paradox and supreme truth—that perception is (or at least can…

— Aldous Huxley

“The theosophy of Light suggests the metaphor of the mirror and the shadow. But "shadow" must not be taken to imply a dimension of…

— Henry Corbin