Quotes About Mysticism

To see the world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

Burden … began to read to the child in Spanish from the book which he had brought with him from California, interspersing the fine, sonorous flowing of mysticism in a foreign tongue with harsh, extemporized dissertations composed half of the bleak and bloodless logic which he remembered from his father on interminable New England Sundays, and half of immediate hellfire and tangible brimstone of which any country Methodist circuit rider would have been proud.

NUREMBERG, September 5 I'm beginning to comprehend, I think, some of the reasons for Hitler's astounding success. Borrowing a chapter from the Roman church, he is restoring pageantry and colour and mysticism to the drab lives of twentieth-century Germans.

What we call science is actually physical science. What we call spirituality is actually inner sciences or sciences not dealing with the physical world. The process of the union between science and spirituality is already in progress. This can be seen in the field of quantum physics merging with mysticism, in homeopathy, in acupuncture, feng shui, chi kung, vibrational medicine and others.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

el espíritu se corporeiza y el cuerpo se espiritualiza», este intermundo que también podríamos llamar, según las tradiciones a las que nos refiramos, aquel de los cuerpos sutiles o de los cuerpos gloriosos, Henry Corbin lo fue a buscar por su parte en el islamismo iraní, en la mística sufí y chií, desde el andaluz Ibn Arabi hasta Sohravardi en Persia.

ces quelques lignes nous livrent peut-être le suprême message de la philosophie ismaélienne : " L'Imam a dit : Je suis avec mes amis partout où ils me cherchent, sur la montagne, dans la plaine et dans le désert. Celui à qui j'ai révélé mon Essence, c'est-à-dire la connaissance mystique de moi-même, celui-là n'a pas besoin d'une proximité physique. Et c'est cela la Grande Résurrection.

The Imagination is the scene of the encounter whereby the supersensory-divine and the sensible "descend" at one and the same "abode.

To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some place of satisfaction with a theory of the world, not even a place of reformation, nor of some illusory transformation of the conditions of this world. It aims for self- transformation, for the inner metamorphosis which is implied by the notion of a new, or spiritual rebirth.... The adventure of the mystical philosopher is essentially seen as a voyage which progresses towards the Light.

Shiism is already and of itself the spiritual way, the ?ar?qah —that is to say, initiation.

Ibn Arabi was above all the disciple of Khidr ( Khidr). We shall attempt further on to indicate what it signifies and implies to be "the disciple of Khidr." In any event such a relationship with a hidden spiritual master lends the disciple an essentially "transhistorical" dimension and presupposes an ability to experience events which are enacted in a reality other than the physical reality of daily life, events which spontaneously transmute themselves into symbols.

There is in God a deep but dazzling darkness.

There is in God, some say A deep but dazzling darkness... O for that night, that I in Him Might live invisible and dim.

I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let

The last song tonight is "Moment of Surrender," a hymn of suffering and redemption, a confession and plea, a very Bono mash-up of religion and mysticism, delivered as a hypnotic chant. I am mesmerized.

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say 'I think' we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off his body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh. They don't say that through the flesh we are set free. That our desire for another will lift us out of ourselves more cleanly than anything divine.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Full of mysticism—most of it nonsense and all muddled up—but something in him driving him to know more than a natural man is supposed to know.

Finally, let it be said that to surrender oneself to the will of others (as often happens with lovers and mystics) and so find oneself at last rid of selfish pleasures, interests, and personal complexes, is in no wise a joyless act, nor one lacking in grandeur.

a psychotic person is drowning in the very same things that a mystic swims in.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?