“ We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
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“ All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. ”
- Louis Claude de St. Martin- Copy
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“ What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. ”
- Basil Bunting- Copy
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“ Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth. ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken. ”
- Benjamin Whichcote- Copy
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“ I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. ”
- Charles Manson- Copy
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“ Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. ”
- Warren Zevon- Copy
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“ Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the non-mystic, a war to the death. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ The audiences all over Europe are great. They really appreciate the music. Italy - there is such a warm spirit there. It maybe have something to do with it being on the Mediterranean. I am a little mystic about it. It is the way that people live. People don't live in a lifestyle based on competition so the stress level is not as prominent. ”
- Steve Wilson- Copy
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“ When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed. ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the "disenchantment of the world." Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations… ”
- Max Weber- Copy
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“ Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless… ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics… ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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