Mysticism Quotes - Page 9

• The description of the world that most people have is very limited. They are in the fog. Once in a while a genuine insight comes through.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fog, People, World

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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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• 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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• A lot of energy is lost to false teachers. Wherever dependency is created, energy is lost.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Energy, Losing

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• In the world of power, people will come looking for you. If you're a movie star, you know what I am saying. People will come around you, little groupie types. They think that being around you they can get something.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Frustrated, Getting Older

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• When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Desire, Losing

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• [P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Zero, Mean

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• The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Earth, Certain

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• Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Dragons, Insanity

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.84, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Buddhist, Night, Flames

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• I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Catholic, Encounters, Consistent

  "The 'True Detective' Creator Debunks Your Craziest Theories". Interview with Kate Aurthur, www.buzzfeed.com. March 6, 2014.

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• The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Obsession, Push Yourself

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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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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1143, Manonmani Publishers

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• Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Mind, Suffering

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• Theoretically, everyone's inner being knows everything. There is a part of us that is aware of all things. But that doesn't necessarily do us a whole lot of good unless we are conscious of that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Conscious, All Things, Whole

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• One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Firsts, Magician

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• There are no limits, and that applies to everyone on earth.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Earth, Limits

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• The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.

  Franz Bardon

  Air, Fire, Water

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• In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.

  Franz Bardon

  Reality, Views, Evil

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• The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Knowing, Mind, Sides

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• Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.

  Colin Wilson

  Wall, Spring, Cutting

  Colin Wilson (1971). “The Occult: A History”, Vintage

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• Naturally you need someone who is versed in the ways of power to teach you a thing or two about it. When you reach the next power level, they will teach you more. It is very much like the study of martial arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Two, Needs

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