Mysticism Quotes - Page 18

• There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

  Thomas Browne

  Religion, Elements, Pieces

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 11

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• Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Events, Today, Spirit

  Wallenstein (1800).

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• What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

  Elie Wiesel

  Today, Students, Phony

  "Elie Wiesel: Conversations". Book edited by Robert Franciosi, 2002.

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• No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.

  William Ralph Inge

  Greek, Mouths, Esoteric

  "Christian Mysticism: The Bampton Lectures". Book by William Ralph Inge, Lecture I, www.gutenberg.org. 1899.

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• The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Men, Race

  "Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Philosophy, Views, Practice

  Katsuki Sekida (2005). “Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy”, p.211, Shambhala Publications

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• Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Dark, People

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• There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.

  Jean Piaget

  Religious, Children, Unique

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

  Camille Paglia

  Egypt, Personality, Lines

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Moving, Past, Reality

  William Irwin Thompson (1980). “Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture”, HarperCollins

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• I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Powerful, Past, Ethos

  "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, p. 15, 2007.

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• Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.

  Frederick Lenz

  Feelings, Enlightenment, Different

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• When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Play, Rama

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• As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Different

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• You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Path, Rama

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• The school of awareness is the school of mysticism. Mysticism is the experience of eternity, of that which lies beyond the physical phenomenal experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, School, Awareness

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• A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Floating, Awareness

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Abuse, Stronger, Attention

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• Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Mean

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• Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Ideas, Perception

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• Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Emotional, Different, Flavor

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• In mysticism, there's more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.

  Frederick Lenz

  Adventure, Camaraderie

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• To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Self, Looks

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• You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Labels, Want

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