Quotes About Mysticism

It is time we realized that we need not be unreasonable to suffuse our lives with love, compassion, ecstasy, and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality or mysticism to be on good terms with reason

The Chinese, you know, believe that deep within each of us, no larger than the ball of your thumb, is the garden of the immortals, the great valley where we are all king forever.

George MacDonald, Andrew Jackson Davis, Swedenborg.

Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Mysticism is the conviction, born of personal experience, that there is a divine core in human personality which each of us can realize directly, and that making this discovery is the real goal of our lives.

When we look at the lives of the great mystics, however, we find ready proof that turning inward does not mean turning away from life.

El arte, lo mismo que el misticismo, concluyen por alterar nuestro desenvolvimiento orgánico.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

I have a spirit guide. His name is Gray Eagle. This is why some people think I am a really crazy person, but he is the one who helps me and guide me. So I'm talking to the spirit world all the time.

Mysticism is always incapable of dealing with the problems of culture because it is a denial of their validity.

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Mysticism on this planet evolved only in those places where people learned the technology of being ecstatic by their own nature. This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can't take on other challenges.

In short, the portrait of Jesus as a Spirit person is history remembered and not simply history metaphorized. This is the basis for my claim that Jesus was a Jewish mystic: for him, God was an experiential reality. He knew the immediacy of the sacred in his own experience. And this claim leads to a second claim: Jesus' experience of God was foundational for the rest of what he was.

theologian Dorothee Soelle, who died in April 2003. It's a book I really commend to you. The main title is The Silent Cry. The subtitle is Mysticism and Resistance. The

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Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

The medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart said that if the soul could have known God without the world, God never would have created the world.

I felt the sputtering flame of true devotion and true mysticism kindled from the weak fire of lives of utter denial.