Mysticism Quotes
Bert McCoy
Don't be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.
4326Swami Dhyan Giten
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
1823 Michael Bassey Johnson
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
1213 Michael Bassey Johnson
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
2441 Meister Eckhart
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
1061 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!
2271 Assegid Habtewold
If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.
4531 Rabindranath Tagore
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
4438 Aberjhani
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
1687 Anthony De Mello
Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
2562 Joris-Karl Huysmans
Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
2862 R.M. Jones
Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities.
1908 Rumi
I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.
3452 Aberjhani
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.
Pink dragonflies fall from the air
and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter.
Like the smile of a child separated
from his mother’s milk for the very first time.
-from poem Blood and Blossoms
2966 Idries Shah
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.
4922 Gertrude Stein
Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
1755 Alan W. Watts
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
3305 Dan Simmons
He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service-the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead language, the immediate magic of the Eucharist bringing the dead back to life so that the faithful could devour Him and become of Him, the smell of incense and the mystical chanting.
3689 Tom Robbins
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.
1048 Peter Rollins
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
3127 Peter Rollins
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.
4307 David James Duncan
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
3628 Thomas Merton
Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.
2492 Marty Rubin
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.
2812 Michael Bassey Johnson
Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.
3307 Simone Weil
Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
2543 Swami Dhyan Giten
I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.
4608 Michael Bassey Johnson
You only know me as an ordinary human being, with flesh, blood and bones, but there is something about me too hard for you to decipher, for if i let you, you will ever regret knowing me.
1389 Michael Bassey Johnson
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.
4359 Cupideros
You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!
2658 Alberto Caeiro
If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.
I’m a mystic, but only in my body,
My soul is simple and doesn’t think.
1521 Peter Matthiessen
The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.
1083 G.K. Chesterton
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
1447 Eli Of Kittim
The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?
2566 Eli Of Kittim
One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!
1535 Abraham Kuyper
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
2521 Anthon St. Maarten
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
3154 Michael Bassey Johnson
In the spirit realm, whatever is said becomes a reality, then, it can be same in the abode of the living, for powerful species, to say whatever they like for an immediate manifestation, it is the law in the astral planes, and we don't care about the destination of the acting forces.
2750 Jay Nichols
When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.
3359 Evelyn Underhill
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone - though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men - so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.
2838 Anthony Esolen
We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.
1937 Junaid E Mustafa
Sufi’s soul seeking serenity succeeds at the cost of the body which gets spifflicated by the spines of the social world.
3584 Junaid E Mustafa
Mystics are no humans but a species different; they are always young and never do they die.
4760 Swami Dhyan Giten
Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.
1538 Swami Dhyan Giten
To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.
1170 Michael Bassey Johnson
We can feel the vibration that comes from the candle flame, burning it way into our innermind, no blurry images, clear as crystal, we enter into the highest consciousness, on our journey back home, we possess the eagle's eye, the eye that can see the invisible.
1988 Michael Bassey Johnson
I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.
3134 Swami Dhyan Giten
Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.
3655 Swami Dhyan Giten
Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost.
Enlightenment is more like an experiencing. It is a process. It begins, but it never ends. You enter it, but you can never possess it. It is a deep merging and melting with Existence. It is a oneness. It is like a drop dropping into the Ocean.
2799 Swami Dhyan Giten
In love, you can sometimes feel a melting and merging with the other person, and the two becomes one. The physical bodies are still separate, but something beyond the bodies creates a oneness. It opens a spiritual dimension.
4469 Swami Dhyan Giten
The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.
4089 Patricia L. Meek
When one opens themselves to spiritual perception, the world becomes a magical place.
2607 Michael Bassey Johnson
In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve.
4253 Usha Cosmico
The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.
1666 Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike
For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.
2614 Swami Dhyan Giten
A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence.
3862 Auliq Ice
Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.
2233 Sharon Gannon
Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language.
1663 Thomas Moore
Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…
3431 Charleston Parker
It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.
1472 Various
No soul in the world is without a particular mission to perform and accomplish, and the misery of every soul is in not having come to understanding of the purpose for which he is born. The lifetime of confusion is always caused by souls wandering all the time away from the purpose of which they were born.
Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927).
3749 Michael Bassey Johnson
Do something: be it good or evil, if they ask why you did it, tell them you're different.
1957 Irina Serban
The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps.
1450 Etienne De L'Amour
For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.
2342 Julia Cameron
The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
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