Quotes About Mysticism

Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

You been playin' with the Ouija board, Rags, honey?

Mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realise the presence of the living God in the soul and in nature, or, more generally, as the attempt to realise, in thought and feeling, the immanence of the temporal in the eternal, and of the eternal in the temporal.

In view of the fact that Nachmanides helped to cultivate the Kabbalah, he became, as his commentary shows, a severe critic of Ibn Ezra, the outspoken opponent to the Jewish Medieval mysticism. It is Professor Schechter, who says of Nachmanides, when contrasting him with Maimonides, "If he was not a profound thinker like the author of the Guide of the Perplexed, he had that which is next best — he felt profoundly.

Whatever explanation you prefer, men and women have for thousands of years been sharing their bodies with other beings, real or imagined. There is overwhelming documentation that, while engaged in such trances, people exhibit skills, talents, knowledge, and even physical strength and dexterity unavailable to them in their normal lives.

Ouija boards,

Sûfizmi politik bir güç olarak devreye sokan ilk sûfi Hallâc'd?r." Louis Massignon

There's a simple reason why people don't get involved with reason, logic and mathematics. They find these extremely difficult. There's a simple reason why people get involved with faith, prayer, mysticism, meditation and mindfulness: they're easy! Anyone can do them.

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will — I see God everywhere!

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Estoy convencida de que para tener experiencias místicas no es necesario vivir como un ermita en la montaña ni estar sentado a los pies de un gurú de la India. Cada ser tiene un cuadrante físico, emocional, intelectual y espiritual

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

Só porque a criatividade é mística, não quer dizer que não deva ser desmistificada - especialmente se isso significa libertar os artistas das limitações de seus delírios de grandeza, de seu pânico e de seu ego.

Thanks to you, the leaders of the University branch—Masters Greenleaf and Smith—are safely out of harm's way. As to the Northern branch—well, my agent currently describes it as an association of young men, young and unmarried, who gather in the woods from time to time to celebrate elaborate rituals that draw equally from local folklore and a youthful taste for mysticism and indiscriminate copulation. We're watching them closely.

But the purpose of philosophy is to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated.

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

I have made myself different eyes, to see down the infinite alleyways the universe dissolves into, at each ecstatic footfall

In verità vi dico: ciò che sentite quando state morendo di sete, coltivatelo. Lo slancio mistico non è che questo. E non è una metafora. La fine della fame si chiama sazietà. La fine della stanchezza si chiama riposo. La fine della sofferenza si chiama conforto. La fine della sete non ha nome. La lingua, nella sua saggezza, ha capito che non è possibile creare il contrario di sete. Ci si può dissetare, ma la parola dissetamento non esiste.

Il y a des gens qui pensent ne pas être des mystiques. Ils se trompent. Il suffit d'avoir crevé de soif un moment pour accéder à ce statut. Et l'instant ineffable où l'assoiffé porte à ses lèvres un gobelet d'eau c'est Dieu.

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

Literally, there is a lot of talk about sparks in the Kabbalah. It talks about when God created the world initially, there was an explosion that happened like a Big Bang but based on vessels and light.

Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?

Personally, I don't trust mystic experiences, including my own — although I seek them and enjoy them. I think Altered Consciousness offers new ways of perceiving/conceiving and should start philosophical investigation, not stop it.