Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary...

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.

The most ‘authoritative’ accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves,...

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.

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

A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life...

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

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.

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...

Be silent like a rock, deeply rooted and straight like a tree, bend like a reed in the wind, listen to the sounds that your ears ignore, and feel the world through your intuition. The...

It wasn’t a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

There are no such things as accidents. Only fate redesigned.

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....

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

Don’t be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.

The business and method of mysticism is love.

I love mysticism – it’s such fun.

In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox in the orchard, as doves and redwings came and went on the warm wind, the...

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

As long as man was in the moolight he desired to reach the moon…there was bliss in the moonlight but the moon itself was distant. Moonlight was near but man longed for the moon…man reached...

…on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you’ve shaken your head, muttering such criticisms as “What does he mean by ‘magic’ anyhow? It’s embarrassing to find a...

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those...

As his (C. S. Lewis’s) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.

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...

Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.

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...

If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on...

The conventional term is “mystical experience,” meaning something that by its very nature lies beyond the reach of language, except for some vague verbal hand-wavings about “mystery” and “transcendence.” As far as I was concerned...

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

What’s wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one’s way at every step?

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one’s god.

TRIAD supernal, both super-God and super-good, Guardian of the Theosophy of Christian men, direct us aright to the super-unknown and super-brilliant and highest summit of the mystic Oracles, where the simple and absolute a!nd changeless...

It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.

I am lost and found in You.

Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

A far cicada rings high and clear over the river’s heavy wash. Morning glory, a lone dandelion, cassia, orchids. So far from the nearest sea, I am taken aback by the sight of a purple...

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.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

The [character-]armored, mechanistically rigid person thinks mechanistically, produces mechanistic tools, and forms a mechanistic conception of nature.The armored person who feels his orgonotic body excitations in spite of his biological rigidity, but does not understand...

There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us.

What is it that has called you so suddenly out of nothingness to enjoy for a brief while a spectacle which remains quite indifferent to you? The conditions for your existence are almost as old...

And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the eternal past,...

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...

Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.

Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of...