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• Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.

  Raven Grimassi

  Art, Blood, Rose

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• Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

  Hartley Coleridge

  Men, Jubilee, Earth

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.285

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• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

  Nathaniel Branden

  Commitment, Judgement, Feelings

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lying, Men, Process

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.219, Xist Publishing

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• Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,
  Severing rightly his from thine,
  Which is human, which divine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Lines, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.185, Graphic Arts Books

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• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

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• You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Religious, Data, Way

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Shining, Dresses, Care

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• The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition.

  Franz Bardon

  Self, Magic, Wish

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• The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Spiritual, Quests, Privilege

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Midnight, Veils, Strange

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.270, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Jesus, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.288, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Home, Men

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Gratitude, Art, Healing

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• Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, Deny, Traditional

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• My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Saint, Worship

  Oscar Wilde (2003). “Salome”, p.172, Editions du héron

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• Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

  Carl Sandburg

  Keys, Flying, Wish

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

  Margaret Mead

  Heart, Men, Artist

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

  Fritjof Capra

  Communication, Knowledge, Science

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Lovers

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  Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

  John Brown

  Thinking, Doe, Holiness

  John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117

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• There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Strong, Stars, War

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.319, Routledge

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• Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules.

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Creative, Secret

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• We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.

  Alexander Lowen

  Philosophy, Ocean, Air

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• The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

  Richard Rohr

  Humble, Doe, Compassionate

  "Mysticism In Religion: Three Ways to View the Sunset" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 11, 2011.

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