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.
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Related Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its orig... SRI CHINMOY Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. HENRI BERGSON Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science HENRI BERGSON Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in... OLIVER SACKS What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, exc... ELIE WIESEL What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, e... ELIE WIESEL What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy,... ELIE WIESEL There is a kind of mysticism to writing. IRVINE WELSH In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to h... ELIE WIESEL Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of deli... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. SALVADOR DALI Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. SALVADOR DALí The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being. E. E. CUMMINGS Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. FERDINAND MARCOS the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. RALPH WALDO EMERSON I love mysticism - it's such fun. JERRY HALL Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools. ABHIJIT NASKAR Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear. ABHIJIT NASKAR Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. MEISTER ECKHART Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when posi... JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. ... PAUL EVDOKIMOV You can't get far with God until you accept the fact that "NO SACRIFICE IS TO MUCH! - Mordecai Uka D... OMEGALIFE I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religious and intellectuals and much more, on... CHICK COREA In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness SOROOSH SHAHRIVAR The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries ... JACK KEROUAC The paining that I painted is a spell to revitalize New Orleans, since New Orleans is home to mystic... DANNY SIMMONS Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and mos... LOUIS MACNEICE One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and... ROBIN INCE Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way... MILAN KUNDERA Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the wa... MILAN KUNDERA Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from a... ABHIJIT NASKAR Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo... BRAM STOKER A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. G.K. CHESTERTON Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of d... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ... SIMONE WEIL Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the m... MARK WAID Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; ... ALFRED ROSENBERG God is not constrained by the limits of our understanding. LESLIE MIKLOSY They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questio... WALTER M. MILLER JR. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is t... DAVID JAMES DUNCAN As a boy, I found myself drawn to Arthurian legends, and then to Celtic mythology, and then further ... MARK FROST What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and th... ALBERT EINSTEIN I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. ELIE WIESEL If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le... LUDWIG FEUERBACH If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at l... LUDWIG FEUERBACH What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and... DAVE DAVIES Compassion is the essence of Jesus' teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figu... MATTHEW FOX We're so bored with eastern mysticism. We're all coming around to hard-core again. No pain. No gain. DOMINIQUE DAY In many cases, the Oscar has been far more a blessing than a curse. If you look at the careers of ac... CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psy... OTTO RANK The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, i... FRITJOF CAPRA To achieve internal purity filter what you watch and what you listen to! --- Mordecai Uka Dike OMEGALIFE It’s not a matter of keeping one day holy for God, but we are to keep ourselves holy each day for ... OMEGALIFE Your inward perception determines your outward transformation! Let your focus be on Christ! ---Morde... OMEGALIFE A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each o... ALAN W. WATTS I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorn... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spir... DAVID C. DOWNING Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect... MEISTER ECKHART Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultifi... EVELYN UNDERHILL Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death. WASIF ALI WASIF Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the ke... G.K. CHESTERTON —and I say you still haven't answered my question, Father Bleu." "Haven't I, dear lady? I tho... JOHN JAKES What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced... DAVE DAVIES The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in ... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be ... SAM HARRIS Sadistic brutality and mystical feeling go always hand in hand when the normal capacity for orgastic... WILHELM REICH He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carr... DAN SIMMONS But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s... GORE VIDAL I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I do... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons... DAVID S. GOYER I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was ... SHANNON HALE Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. ANTHONY DE MELLO Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that become... ABHIJIT NASKAR The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as... LEON TROTSKY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only g... ANTHON ST. MAARTEN Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will co... ABHIJIT NASKAR I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that... ROB BELL Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures do... WILLIAM HAZLITT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personali... EMIL BRUNNER To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to reli... KATHE KOLLWITZ Farsi Couplet: Mun tu shudam tu mun shudi,mun tun shudam tu jaan shudi Taakas na guyad baa... AMIR KHUSRAU The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar a... LEON TROTSKY The primitive Christians were accustomed to speak, in a language which was older than Christianity, ... C. HAROLD DODD Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a w... ANNIE DILLARD The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. JOSEPH CAMPBELL inspiration is like static electricity/ i'm rubbing my cloth over here/ on the crystal shaft of poet... TIGER WINDWALKER Mysteries are just unclear axioms. AARON SANTOS Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are ... TOM COWAN You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways tha... SADHGURU Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, ... G.K. CHESTERTON For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, t... TERESA OF ÁVILA Stop looking for miracles through mystic way SUNDAY ADELAJA
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