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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
1. Shadow of Legends
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.
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics.
Dreamer in Exile.
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses ... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.
Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.
Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.
The business and method of mysticism is love.
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
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.
I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?
'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ...
These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm."
(Rob Brezsny)
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.
Mysticism is the function of a mind looking for alternatives to reality.
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Pusillanimous. Talisman.
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
One whose happiness is within, who is active within, who rejoices within and is illumined within, is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.
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.
Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.
The Assassin the midst the deadly druid
Fury the shattering
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.
And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will fold into the mystic
Angels, pixies, faerie dust Treading love and living lust.
The Midnight Gang
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
The Christian mystic therefore is one for whom God and Christ are not merely objects of belief, but living facts experimentally known first hand; and mysticism for him becomes, in so far as he responds to its demands, a life based on this conscious communion with God
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,
Dark gods beneath the ground in the Frostfangs,
Shamans enter the dream world of sub-consciousness to wrestle with demons and rally angels. They return with tales of their encounters which become the myths and legends of their communities.
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.
Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.
My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.
If the 'Mystics' were about Isolation..Purity about 'White'..Hermits about 'Rags' and Love about 'Self'...
There is tons above and beyond the visible!!
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.
The mystics and their "collected works." When one addresses oneself to God, and to God alone, as they claim to do, one should be careful not to write. God doesn't read ...
Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.
Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental.
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness, and caprice.
The popular breeze - Aura popularis
Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.
Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.
Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.
Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.
High Magic's Aid)
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.
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.
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
The secret of mysticism, therefore, is to feel, think, speak, and act at the same time, for then all that is said, or felt, or done, becomes perfect.
I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.
Lords of spirit, Lords of breath,
Lords of fireflies, stars, and light,
Who will keep the world from death?
Who will stop the coming night?
Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.
We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
Gods and Thunders!
Man without mysticism is a monster.
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
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.
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Herondales, someone had told her once. They were everything that Shadowhunters had to offer, all in one family: both the best, and the worst.
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
The Sufis, like all mystics, are singers of a homesickness that is a kind of hope; all of us are exiles in the world, they tell us, longing to get back to the place that is our rightful home.
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
The great and rare mystics of the past ... were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.
Stop looking for miracles through mystic way
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
When you consider all saints and prophets as legitimate and no longer differentiate between religions, you have reached the stage of true mysticism.
Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.
Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.
My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix
Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us
Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.
Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.
Again, all the true shamans were wiped out long ago.
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.
They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are free, they never forget their past and spend their lives trying to bring peace to others. (Brotherhood Chanson)
This individual must focus on idealistic callings and activities that uplift others, cultivating faith and spirituality. This is the Mystic, Hermit, Visionary, and Intuitive.
They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.
Sacred souls serve.
In mysticism we have to take all the imprinting that has occurred to us and wash it. Then we need to be re-imprinted but in a different way. Without it, we don't survive.
The strength of the snow and the fire has turned you into a traveling magician. You heal people by holding their hands between yours, you make them forget the cold, hunger, sickness, and war.
psycho monsters.
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.