#esoteric

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#bit #bookstore #clubs #down #esoteric

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#art form #being #end #esoteric #films

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence.... ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#nature

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. ↗

— Rumi

#metaphysics #rumi #metaphysics

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below. ↗

— Gerald R. Stanek

#ancient-wisdom #awareness #esoteric-wisdom #inspirational #pyramid

The philosopher's stone was more than likely a term for an ecstatic state, one in which the field of immediate knowledge we spoke of earlier became manifest in the psyche of the alchemist. That is, it more than likely answered in many respects the satori experience of the Zen Buddhist. ↗

— Charles Ponce

#experience

What we are witness to in alchemy is the transformation of philosophic ideas concerning the structure and dynamics of the world into psychological considerations on the nature of man and his soul. ↗

— Charles Ponce

#nature

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#assign #born #climates #common #countless

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#difficulty #esoteric #every #however #know