Quotes about Mysticism

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Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence. — Wasif Ali Wasif
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray. — Wasif Ali Wasif
Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death. — Wasif Ali Wasif
Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! — Francesco Petrarca
If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failur — Wasif Ali Wasif
We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the universe, — Warren Sharpe, Philosophy for the Serious Heretic: The Limitations of Belief and the Derivation of Natural Moral Principles
The dead can read tears. — Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye. — Wasif Ali Wasif
Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. — Meister Eckhart, Sermons and Treatises, Vol 2
The business and method of mysticism is love. — Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: The Nature And Development Of Spiritual Consciousness
If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the g — G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. — Evelyn Underhill
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but a — Richard Rohr
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meanin — Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism; and, Abba: Meditations on the Lord's Prayer
Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, — Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism; and, Abba: Meditations on the Lord's Prayer
The Innocent Mage is come , and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything — Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage
I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form tha — Oscar Wilde, Criticism and Reviews