Mysticism proverbs
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- Teresa of ávila98◆ Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.
- Evelyn Underhill98◆ There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary and subjective path; and the way of the occultist, which is the way of the intellect, of concentration, and of trained will; upon this path the co-operation of fellow workers is required, firstly for the exchange of knowledge, and secondly because ritual magic plays an important part in this work, and for this the assistance of several is needed in most of the greater operations. The mystic derives his knowledge through the direct communion of his higher self with the Higher Powers; to him the wisdom of the occultist is foolishness, for his mind does not work in that way; but, on the other hand, to a more intellectual and extrovert type, the method of the mystic is impossible until long training has enabled him to transcend the planes of form. We must therefore recognize these two distinct types among those who seek the Way of Initiation, and remember that there is a path for each.
- Dion Fortune98◆ I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein98◆ At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.
- Christopher Hitchens98◆ the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson98◆ Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…
- Thomas Moore98◆ God is as real as a station wagon.
- Peggy Payne98◆ You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
- Rick Aster98◆ For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.
- Etienne de L'Amour98◆ The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.
- Etienne de L'Amour98◆ Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
- John Piper98◆ What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of the world, which includes the resurrection, the rapture, and his appearance in the sky!
- Eli Of Kittim98◆ Hire an angel. They need the work.
- Donna Wolfe Gatti98◆ Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.
- Robin Craig Clark98
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