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Quotes About Mysticism

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
~ Oliver Sacks
To be deified is to enable God to be born in oneself. Dionysius the Areopagite Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, II, Intro. (PG 3,392)
~ Olivier Clement
See a woman pale as snow? Silent come and silent go. What's their plan? What's their plan? Chandrian. Chandrian.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The first is the art of mind-stilling, of emptying consciousness of every thought and form whatsoever. This is mysticism or Yoga.
~ Paul Brunton
QBLH(qabbalah) which means to receive. The Qabbalah is not handed down from generation to generation but something which requires receptivity in those who are initiated into the mysteries.
~ Unknown
Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.
~ Unknown
The austere empiricism and scholarly imagination of the Warburg style were the very antithesis of the brutal anti-intellectualism and vulgar mysticism threatening to barbarize German culture in the 1920s; this was Weimar at its best.
~ Peter Gay
Rationality is simply mysticism misunderstood.
~ Unknown
“Whom shall I bring up for you?” the woman asked. “Bring up Samuel,” he replied.
~ 1 Samuel 28:11
and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,
~ Ezekiel 1:5
but each had four faces and four wings.
~ Ezekiel 1:6
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.
~ Ezekiel 1:11
(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)
~ Ezekiel 10:8
Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
~ Ezekiel 10:12
Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
~ Ezekiel 10:14
Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.
~ Ezekiel 10:22
So the king gave orders to summon the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to explain his dreams. When they came and stood before the king,
~ Daniel 2:2