Mysticism Quotes - Page 5

• The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Done, World

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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

  Frederick Lenz

  Bored, Energy, Attention

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• I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Hurt, Book, Reading

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• The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Heart, Differences, Humanity

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Paul Evdokimov, 1968.

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• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Remembrance, Pills

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• I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

  Rumi

  Compassion, Rose, Thorns

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• Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

  Caroline Myss

  Mystical, Reasonable

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2014

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• Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

  Meister Eckhart

  People, Firsts, Achieve

  Eckhart (Meister) (1963). “Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart”

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• All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

  Karl Marx

  Peace, Ubuntu, Practice

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• An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

  Martin Luther

  God, Spiritual, Angel

  "Martin Luther's Table Talk".

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• When science starts to be interpretive
  it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Accounts

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.412, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Inspiration, Different, Sometimes

  Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag

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• Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Mean, Age, Doe

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• We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Christian, Art, Home

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• Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age mysticism, Native American folklore, and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms.

  Helen Chenoweth-Hage

  Native American, Emotional, Government

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• In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Expression, Oneness

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.

  Roger A. Kaufman

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

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• Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

  Hafez

  Grieving, Delight, Veils

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• Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Stars, Looks

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• It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.209

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• My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

  Norman Pirie

  Faith, Teacher, Science

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• The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

  Dan Simmons

  Revelations, Planets, Whole

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.47, Spectra

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• The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

  Caroline Myss

  Motivation, Journey, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2013

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• Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Men, Roots

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

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