#mystic

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#being #entire #even #ever #existence

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#mystical #mysticism #religion #religion

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#bourne #city #destination #eternal #even

I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly. ↗

— Charles Manson

#got #i #kind #magical #mystical

Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. ↗

— R.M. Jones

#intimacy #mysticism #experience

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#science #men

God is as real as a station wagon. ↗

— Peggy Payne

#god #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #mysticism #religion

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#philosophy #religion #freedom

Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly, And in this way, Love and Faith Make you surmount Reason, for They are the protectors of Reason's house. ↗

— Marguerite Porete

#feminism #interpretation #medieval #mystic #religion

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#redemption #stumble #respect