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“Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At every moment your attention field is increasing or decreasing.”
“Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.”
“Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.”
Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary
“Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.”
“Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.”
“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.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.”
“Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.”
“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.”
Source: Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.”
Source: The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic
“Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.”
“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”
“Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.”
“Mystics reign where lacks true education.”
Source: I Am The Thread: My Mission
“Mystics seem to have no shame about contradicting themselves left and right. They blithely proclaim that the cure for pain is in the pain itself and that the cry of longing is the sigh of merging. That's because the path of the mystic reconciles contradictory propositions (such as harrowing sorrow and radical amazement) and blesses us with an extended capacity to sit with ambiguity, to treasure vulnerability, to celebrate paradox as the highest truth.”
Source: Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
“Mystics throughout time have said that they believe in God like they believe in light, not because they can see light, but because through it they see everything else.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
“Mystics, to begin with, find freedom in giving themselves. By losing themselves in their god, by accepting his rules, they become secretly free.”
“Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both.”
“Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.”
“Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.”
“Mystique saturates, gluts the air,
Adventure’s even more than rare,
Excitement’s everywhere to share,
And Novelty’s beyond compare.”
Source: HOT STUFF: Celebrating Summer's Simmer and Sizzle
“Mystisch wird der Herbst,
wenn Worte leise die Sterne berühren
und wir die Nacht zurückfordern.
Der Tag verblast,
die Nacht kehrt heim,
Mondgeflüster.
Der wahrhaftige Dichter,
zu seinen Lesern spricht,
Montag um sieben, so steht es geschrieben.”
“MYTH #2: ROMANTIC LOVE IS THE ONLY REAL LOVE Look at the lyrics of popular songs, or read some classical poetry: the phrases we choose to describe romantic love don’t really sound all that pleasant. Crazy in love, love hurts, obsession, heartbreak … these are all descriptions of mental or physical illness.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.”
“Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.”
“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Myth becomes the truth that appeases our fears.”
“Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.”
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”
Source: The Lost Art of Gratitude
“Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.”
Source: New Testament and mythology and other basic writings
“Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.”
Source: The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
“MYTH: Erotica is vulgar and crude.
There is a large stereotype about erotic content being vulgar and crude, however, this is not always the case. There are many different kinds of written erotica available – the stories can range from romantic and subtle to aggressive and outrageous. Not all erotica is created to stun and surprise – some erotica is created to help the reader explore parts of their sexuality they’ve never experienced before.”
“Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.”
“Myth is a symbolic intuition, where history is the past event of a good or bad deed.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.”
“Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.”
Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation
“Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
“Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.”
“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”
Source: Mythologies
“Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.”
“Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.”
“Myth is someone else's religion.”
“Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.”
“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”
Source: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
Source: The Uses of Literature