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“…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Make no mistake about the character of mystics. To undercut your consciousness has always been their only purpose throughout the ages - and power,…

— Ayn Rand

“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

“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“You will not be a mystic until you are like the earth— both the righteous and the sinner tread upon it— and until you…

— Bayazid Bistami

“My belief is that, the mystics will never be happy nor sad because I took their side. Indeed, this is the right path that…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“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

“I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no…

— Oscar Wilde

“All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.”

— Karl Marx

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— 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…

— Evelyn Underhill

“To elude nature, to refuse her friendship, and attempt to leap the river of life in the hope of finding God on the other…

— Evelyn Underhill