Quotes About Mysticism

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager. Just kidding. I actually shave every morning, and thanks to my vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, I will my facial hair to grow to the exact same length each day. Dave Grohl taught me that one.

Aleister Crowley

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

It has been said, quite accurately, that a psychotic person is drowning in the very same things that a mystic swims in.

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

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

10. Apollonius of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistos, said, That which is above is that which is below. By this he meant to tell us that our universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term.

Only in a perfect flight from nothingness is Being to be found in all its purity. —St. Bonaventura

Book of Revelation frequently described objects in groups of seven to symbolize the seven "chakras" or energy systems in the body.

But if I should live to be very old, I have laid plans for that so that it will not be too tiresome. So far, I have never used coffee, liquor, nor any form of stimulant. When I get old, and my joints and bones tell me about it, I can sit around and write for myself, if for nobody else, and read slowly and carefully the mysticism of the East, and re-read Spinoza with love and care. All the while my days can be a succession of coffee cups. Then

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning

The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Los Sufis apuntan a refinar la consciencia humana. Esto es el misticismo Sufi: no mistificación o magia, pero una vía específica.

En el hombre inalterado, el deseo básico de misticismo nunca es lo bastante claro como para ser reconocido por lo que es.

The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

El Sufismo, de hecho, no es un sistema místico, ni una religión, pero un cuerpo de sabiduría.