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“Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.”

Philosophy Process Logic Ultimate Objectives Mysticism Logical Discourse

Book:Elie Wiesel: Conversations

Source: Elie Wiesel: Conversations

“What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.”

Today Teach Students Jokes Mysticism Phony

Author:Elie Wiesel

“No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.”

Has Beens Language Mystery Divine Mouths Socialism Greek Mysticism Employed Mystic Esoteric Connexion

Author:William Ralph Inge

“The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.”

Men Has Beens Seems Night Belief Race Logic Mad Clubs Extremes Mysticism Chamber Mislead Pirate Night Club Things Are Not What They Seem

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

Philosophy Views Practice Activity Normal Nervous Mysticism Nervous System

Book:Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy

Source: Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy

“Religious mysticism is intellectual garbage. It’s a vestige of the old superstitious Dark Ages when nobody knew anything...It is one of those delusions that isn’t called insane only because there are so many people involved.”

People Age Religious Dark Involved Intellectual Insane Delusion Mysticism Garbage Dark Ages Superstitious

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.”

Has Beens Lines Economic Personality Capitalism Western Ancient Mysticism Inherent Egypt Greedy Aesthetics Glamour Economic Systems Ancient Egypt Gaudy

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs.”

“The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!"”

Said Reality Eye Names Speak Expression Masters Eternal Concepts His Eyes Mysticism Scholar Transcendent Transient Disarming

Author:Anthony de Mello

“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.”

Mysticism Accounting

Author:Iain Banks

“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.”

Firsts Saws Essence Landscape Mysticism

Book:My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915

Source: My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915

“Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.”

Source: Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture

“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.”

“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.”

“Personal power is a feeling that everybody is looking for called satisfaction. It is different from enlightenment, but you need personal power to become enlightened. Personal power is not the end of the process.”

Needs Different Ends Feelings Action Process Enlightenment Satisfaction Enlightened Mysticism Personal Power Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.”

Giving Different Energy Compassion Gains Mysticism Manipulate Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Play Sports Teach Mysticism Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Different Film Literature Teach Buddhism Development Yoga Different Things Mysticism Psychics Rama Tibetan Bhakti Yoga Bhakti

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Different Teach Teacher Taught Buddhism Theme Mysticism Rama Tibetan Tibetan Buddhism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Path Students Buddhism Capacity Increase Mysticism Mystical Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will bring back the powers and awareness from the past; more importantly, it will expand your consciousness today.”

Today Past Consciousness Meditation Awareness Concentration Mysticism Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.”

Acceptance Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Self Form Discovery Various Self Discovery Mysticism Mixtures Eclectic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Way States Difficult Mysticism Exploration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The school of awareness is the school of mysticism. Mysticism is the experience of eternity, of that which lies beyond the physical phenomenal experience.”

School Lying Awareness Eternity Mysticism Phenomenal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.”

Dream Deals Fields Perception Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.”

Persons Made Awareness Ocean Mysticism Floating Barges

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown.”

Persons Together Dies Awareness Birth Mysticism Back Again Great Unknown

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In mysticism we reorder those awarenesses. We combine and recombine them endlessly. We assemble them so we can experience aspects of the universe that most people will never know.”

People Knows Universe Awareness Aspect Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Moments Use Attention Study Growing Fields Abuse Stronger Mysticism Getting Stronger

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.”

Light Life Is Energy Cutting Flow Mysticism Bullshit Pragmatic Energy Flow

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.”

Want Should Mean Spiritual Religious Enlightenment Legs Stuck Iron Mysticism Handcuffs

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.”

Ideas Spiritual Perception Enlightenment Rings Mysticism Spiritual Beings

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.”

Knows Faces Individual Mysticism Tenacity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.”

World Done Eye Faces Turns Process Clear Mysticism Immensity Clear Eyes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.”

Knows Different Whole Body Emotional Mysticism Mystical Flavor Poignant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In mysticism, there's more of a sense of adventure, of camaraderie.”

Adventure Mysticism Camaraderie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.”

Way Mind States Use Ability Study Depends Approach Mysticism State Of Mind You Choose Outrageous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.”

World Way Humans Self Understanding Human Beings Simple Seeing Method Self Realization Realization Planes Perceive Life Changing Meaning Of Life Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.”

Looks Self Eye Consciousness Steps Various Mysticism Viewpoints Detached

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.”

Mind Mystery Mysticism Riddle Places To Go

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.”

World Way Body Steps Seeing Awareness This World Circles Mysticism Magnificent Timeless Arena

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's own mind of thoughts.”

Mind Sides Known Senses Reasoning Visible Mysticism

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.”

Mind Looks States Mysticism State Of Mind Couches

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.”

World Reality Sides Buddhism Mysticism Nothingness Another World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.”

Ifs Thinking Want Universe Term Illusion Labels Mysticism You Choose

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor is there a lowest point. These configurations are ideas. Ideas are primitive constructs, symbolic representations, reflections in a mirror.”

Ideas Ends Highest Reflection Absolutes Mirrors Finals Mysticism Primitive Representation Lowest Constructs Symbolic Configuration Lowest Point

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Taking a walk isn't really taking a walk, taking a shower isn't really taking a shower, living isn't living, and dying isn't dying. It only appears to be.”

Walks Dying Mysticism Showers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“No place is the same because everything is shifting always.”

Mysticism Shifting

Author:Frederick Lenz

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