Mysticism Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

  Fritjof Capra

  Men, Doe, Needs

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

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• The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Done, Possibility

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• Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Discovery, Self

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• We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Light, Perception

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• To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Spirituality, Logic

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.227

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• Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Sleep, Phantoms, Spirit

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello

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• Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Long, Spirituality, Mystery

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• To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Destiny, Games

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• There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and a flow and an organization to the human body, to atomic structures, to the elements.

  Frederick Lenz

  Organization, Elements, Body

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• We are going to alter the structure of our beings and also totally change what we are. This is the possibility and inevitability that meditation offers us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Possibility, Structure

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• There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in the view. We have to separate, to some extent, the perceiver from that which is perceived or we have to lose all distinction whatsoever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Distinction, Loses

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• The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Waiting, Soul, Hovering

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1910). “The Inner Beauty”

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• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dream, Eye, Color

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

  Thomas Browne

  Dying, Fruition, Satisfaction

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.185

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• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Nature, Miracle, Spirituality

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• All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

  Angus Wilson

  Believe, People, Magic

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• When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.

  Ostad Elahi

  Religious, Saint, Prophet

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• Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

  Tom Robbins

  Enemy, Facts, Honest

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.166, Bantam

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• I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Ideas

  I-D Magazine Interview, 1996.

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