At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.
Christopher HitchensTags: mysticism tautology jorge-luis-borges
I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, thought it is not lost, does not reason—I mean that it does not work, but is amazed at the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that it understands nothing of what His Majesty represents to it.
Teresa of ÁvilaTags: prayer mysticism chapter-xxiii mystical-theology
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph CampbellTags: metaphor attributed mysticism schizophrenia psychosis
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. JonesSurely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.
G.K. ChestertonTags: faith skepticism mysticism
As his (C. S. Lewis's) good friend Owen Barfield once remarked, Lewis radiated a sense that the spiritual world is home, that we are always coming back to a place we have never yet reached.
David C. DowningTags: heaven mysticism discontent
The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
Lafcadio HearnTags: philosophy religion mysticism
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
John PiperTags: thinking pride mysticism
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
Rick AsterTags: writing-craft mysticism
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light…unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous…we don’t know what’s going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, hammered out of those same typewriters, that they ignite? We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.
Annie DillardTags: spirituality mystery mysticism landscape beauty-in-nature
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