Mystic Quotes - Page 9

• After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Illumination, Two, Germany

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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• The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Law, Hatred

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “The Essays of Montaigne”, p.386

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• The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Atheism, Ineffable, Unspeakable

  The Moon and Sixpence Ch. 1

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• The most interesting to me were Doctor Strange, because he was so mystic, and Thor, because that was really cool. I mean, I had never been able to relate to the idea of a bearded guy in the sky, you know, and I'd always really liked mythology, and with Thor, it was like Stan Lee was actually saying, "Yeah, it's okay, there really is this Nordic god, there really is something besides the bearded guy in the sky". So I loved that!

  Trina Robbins

  Mean, Doctors, Sky

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Literature, Immediacy

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Philosophy, Passion, School

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)

  Dennis Lehane

  Pain, Heart, Blood

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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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• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Swim

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• The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Perception, Receiving

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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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• 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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• 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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• I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

  Debbie Harry

  Knows

  "Platinum Blondie". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2017.

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

  Cesare Pavese

  Decision, Action, Reason

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heaven, Priesthood, Brahma

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• Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Future, Glowing

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• Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

  Bob Dylan

  Sky, Mad, Naked

  'Chimes of Freedom' (1964 song)

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• Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Animal, Devil, Intense

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• Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.

  Margaret Smith

  Self, Soul, Unseen

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• Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural ray, Enchanting souls to silver sleep. Look down from out thy airy keep, My fevered senses hypnotize; Shut out the World, whereto Mind flies-- Ambitious Mind, with travail sore; Its fibre rest, its calm restore.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Sleep, Moon, Night

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Men, People, Police

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