Karl Rahner  - Quotes

 In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. 

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William James  - Quotes

 There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. 

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George Orwell  - Quotes

 The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. 

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Rabindranath Tagore  - Quotes

 Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. 

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Marguerite Porete  - Quotes

 Theologians and other clerks,

You won't understand this book,

-- However bright your wits --

If you do not meet it humbly,

And in this way, Love and Faith

Make you surmount Reason, for

They are the protectors of Reason's house.
 

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Simone Weil  - Quotes

 A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. 

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Bram Stoker  - Quotes

 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 

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Joris-Karl Huysmans  - Quotes

 Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin. 

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Anthony De Mello  - Quotes

 Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. 

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Hermann Hesse  - Quotes

 The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born first must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The god 

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Walt Whitman  - Quotes

 The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,

It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.



I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.



I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.



You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,

But I shall be good health to your nevertheless,

And filter and fibre your blood.



Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,

Missing me one place, search another,

I stop somewhere waiting for you.



(closing lines of 'Leaves of Grass')
 

Tags: inspirational   mystic   spiritual     
P.D. Ouspensky  - Quotes

 I have become so accustomed to think  

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Shannon Hale  - Quotes

 I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. 

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Meister Eckhart  - 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. 

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John Cowper Powys  - Quotes

 There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the soul of the great blazing sun there were complicated superhuman vibrations [connected] ... with the feelings of a few intellectual sages who had enough imagination to recognise the conscious personality of this fiery orb as it flung far and wide its life-giving magnetic forces. Roaring, cresting, heaving, gathering, mounting, advancing, receding, the enormous fire-thoughts of this huge luminary surged relentlessly to and fro, evoking a turbulent aura of psychic activity.  

Tags: ecstatic   mystical   pretentious     
Jack Gilbert  - Quotes

 Duende



I can't remember her name.

It's not as though I've been in bed

with that many women.

The truth is I can't even remember

her face. I kind of know how strong

her thighs were, and her beauty.

But what I won't forget

is the way she tore open

the barbecued chicken with her hands,

and wiped the grease on her breasts.
 

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