#mysticism

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

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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-quotes #love #mysticism #passion #poetry

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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God is as real as a station wagon. ↗

— Peggy Payne

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

#philosophy #religion #freedom

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

— Meister Eckhart

#redemption #stumble #respect

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#religion #science

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. ↗

— Simone Weil

#mysticism #beauty