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.

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...

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

A Super-Integral Spirituality has all the features of an Integral Spirituality, plus, among other things, an inherent conjunction of each stage with a given state, giving all of its stages a transpersonal or spiritual flavor...

Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect – like the waves of the ocean.

I am the witch of my mystical world.

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

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.

Nourish yourself so you can feed others.

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it could not be observed directly. Trying to explain their insights, scientists looked at...

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...

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never...

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

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...