Mysticism Quotes

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

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.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.

You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.

I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

Man without mysticism is a monster.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.