Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a ‘vital principle’ than the splitting up...

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...

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to...

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

Through Jung [Pauli] became very interested in various kinds of mysticism, including Jewish mysticism. This led Pauli to develop a friendship with Gershom Scholem, the world’s greatest authority in that field and in the Cabala,...

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.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

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...

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other...

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and...

Mystics are no humans but a species different; they are always young and never do they die.

I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at...

Lao Tzu’s first paragraph in the book “Tao Te Ching” is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of...

Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.

The different religions have now come together, and if they are not to continue in a state of conflict or competition, they must develop a spirit of comprehension which will break down prejudice and misunderstanding...

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

TODAY, I can choose what affects me, to not be afraid, to not let this break-up depress me, to look at mistakes as learning experiences, to be happy, to feel loved, TODAY I can choose….

If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that’s exactly what we’ve done.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,’ says Sister Ruth, ‘go straight ahead.

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

When one opens themselves to spiritual perception, the world becomes a magical place.

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, “Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

The sword is a handle onto the Way of the world that is offering itself to you. If you are willful it will weigh a ton and wear you out. If you lose focus it...

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.

A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds ‘us’ to the homeland – that special place which is more than a place, more than a...

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything...

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.Pink dragonflies fall from the airand become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separatedfrom...

I wills.” This is the basic platform of magick, and most people never get past it, because not all can.

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain...

Sufi’s soul seeking serenity succeeds at the cost of the body which gets spifflicated by the spines of the social world.

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...

When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of Ljusbacken (“The Hill of Light”) in Delsbo in beautiful Halsingland in the north...

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

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...

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.