Failure Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

— Frederick Lenz

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship…

— William Butler Yeats

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

— Henri Nouwen

“ 'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ”

— Wilhelm Reich

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

— Albert Schweitzer

“A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal…

— Anonymous

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

— Sri Chinmoy

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

— Sri Chinmoy

“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more than a…

— Fr. Augustine Baker

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of…

— Florence Nightingale