Mysticism sayings

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◆ 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.

- Shannon Hale99

◆ If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

- Aberjhani99

◆ A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ 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′s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

- Bram Stoker99

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

- William James99

◆ Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry99

◆ 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.

- Joris-Karl Huysmans99

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

- Anthony de Mello99

◆ A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

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

- Rabindranath Tagore99

◆ Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

- Meister Eckhart99

◆ Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

- Tom Robbins99

◆ That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

- Peter Rollins99

◆ For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.

- Teresa of ávila99

◆ Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

- G.K. Chesterton99