Mysticism Quotes

• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Disappointment, Eye

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• There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Essence, Feelings, Who We Are

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• Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Overcoming, Separation, Natural

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• Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Reality, Unions

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.10, Aeterna Press

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• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Engagement, Finest

  "After Einstein : Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration". Book by Peter Barker, Cecil G. Shugart (p. 179), 1981.

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• Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

  Meister Eckhart

  World, May, Language

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• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

  Florence Nightingale

  Diversity, Heaven, Inward

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.13, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with a kind of humility. So when you see that combination of calm self-confidence, certitude, and humility all at the same time you have the basis for mysticism in general.

  Richard Rohr

  Believe, Humility, Self Confidence

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• A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Facts, Mystic, Persons

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• The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Self, Spirit, Figures

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  Otto Rank

  Future, Creativity, Civilization

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• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Doe, World

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• Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Prayer, Long

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Mean

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Unique, Men

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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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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• The business and method of mysticism is love.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Method

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

  Vernon Howard

  Water, Tables, Cups

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• Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Today, Tomorrow

  "A Candid Conversation with the High Priest of Popcult and Metaphysician of Media". Playboy Interview with Eric Norden, March 1969.

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Past, Disrespect

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• Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.173, Prestwick House Inc

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, One Day, Degrees

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