Quotes About Mysticism

Do you believe in reincarnation? ... I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this.

La muerte era desafío. La muerte era -por parte de personas que sentían la imposibilidad de alcanzar el centro que, místicamente, se les escapaba, que vivían una proximidad convertida en lejanía, un éxtasis desvirtuado, que se quedaban solas- un intento de comunicar. Había un abrazo en la muerte.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

Femella can talk to creatures living and nonliving. She communes with the wee folk and the elfin. She knows the secrets of the untamed places. She believes, and because she believes, she can see.

I cannot describe God in the same way that I cannot describe a picture I am holding millimeters from my eyes—the picture is made strange and unknowable not because it is distant but because it is so close.

Gnosticism is the purest and most direct way of knowing God and the Universe.

Hermes Trismegistus is the most famous Gnostic. He was the founder of the pre-Christian lineage of Greek Gnosticism.

Allâh as the Beloved in Sûfî literature, the ma'shûq, is always depicted with female iconography.

Looking out of the back of your head is a way that some shamans describe the shamanic experience.

Sufism travels into the realm of story, inspired analogy and esoteric understanding of the Qur'an, so that the Sufi may ultimately become the Essence.

The Prophets, Evliyas and Sheikhs are spiritual 'gravity wells.' They become so 'heavy' because they carry Allah (the Awareness of the Entire Universe) within themselves. This is why these Holy Ones draw others toward them.

Sufism is a bridge; it is not a religion.

To God, through God, Beyond God.

Gnostics do not need faith because they are already having a direct relationship with the Absolute Essence.

Ceraunoscopy, n. Divination by thunder and lightning.

Science has been abused for every conceivable purpose under the sun. Which is all the more reason to deliver the power it grants to as many people as possible, as rapidly as possible, instead of leaving it in the hands of a few. It is not a reason to retreat into fantasy – to declare: knowledge is a cultural artifact, nothing is universally true, only mysticism and obfuscation and ignorance will save us.

Creación desde la nada. ¿Qué tiene en el bolso? Un engendro con el cordón umbilical arrastrando, amorrado en paño bermejo. El cordón de todos enlaza con el pasado, cable cabitrenzado de toda carne. Por eso los monjes místicos. ¿Querríais ser como dioses? Miraos vuestro omphalos. ¡Oiga! Aquí Kinch. Pón-game con Villaedén. Alef, alfa: cero, cero, uno.

The mystics may have found solace in the meditative life, but I think there are days when memory and solitude are not one's friend.

Maybe they used drugs on you. Maybe they didn't need drugs. They have powers we don't understand.

he saw no fence between this world and the one that lay behind it.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.

Actually, I believe in everything, including astrology and tarot cards. All of it is just another way for people to try and tighten the link to the spirits in our universe. I believe it exists for all people.