The Truth Is That I Was Recognized For Stubbornness And Not Goodness. Even, Though I Was Very Intelligent And Sent To School By A Little Few Supports From Sponsors And My Mother. My Brain Was...

It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is marked by the same author who marked its beginning: Aldous Huxley. After thirty...

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the...

On the first day of November last year, sacred to many religious calendars but especially the Celtic, I went for a walk among bare oaks and birch. Nothing much was going on. Scarlet sumac had...

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

They don’t think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

Good. Bad. The cup holds both.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

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.

An eternity of wisdom and life lies waiting for discovery by those who are willing to embark on the mystical adventure. All of our resources are within us. All we need is our heart, our...

Working with people is basically not a question of formal education; working with people is a question of energy and awareness. Everyone can basically work with people. It is a question of developing a presence...

We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the universe, God set himself to oversee it and manage it. We see God...

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of a set of Chinese puzzle boxes, each one more intricately structured and wondrous...

Prayer is a many fingeredand kaleidoscopic thing—it foldsand unfolds inside of you. It entersthe many rooms you cannot enter.

What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of...

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems...

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...

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.

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

The ancient sages of Kashmir Shaivism did not look for the truth only in logic and intellectual speculation. They relied much more on their experiences during deep yogic states to guide them in understanding and...

For the most part, what we think of as ‘I’ is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.

If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas)...

There is a bench in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I sit early in the morning and watch the action. Light blue bells of...

…You see I believe in that stuff to: yoga and mystical powers. I once knew a man who could kill himself on command. Can you believe that? . . . Why do you laugh? ....

the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs,...

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The Innocent Mage is come , and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything

The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart – the dimension of joy, trust,...

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad.

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

At a certain point talk about ‘essence’ and ‘oneness’ and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties.Capra

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says “yes” to the whole existence.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

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.

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.

The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake...

I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was – and remains – the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a...

even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it

God is as real as a station wagon.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings.