That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?
Peter WashingtonTags: belief religion mysticism mystic system theosophy belief-system madame-blavatsky-s-baboon theosophical-society
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
Anthon St. MaartenTags: imagination fantasy psychology creativity magic religious-freedom self-expression mysticism beliefs magick ancient-wisdom esoteric-wisdom magical-thinking psychology-spirituality ancestors golden-age free-thinking traditional religion-and-science cultural-history child-development primitive-religion ancient-culture
The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is proved not by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives. They have both locked themselves up in two boxes, painted inside with the sun and stars; they are both unable to get out, the one into the health and happiness of heaven, the other even into the health and happiness of the earth.
G.K. ChestertonTags: logic materialism mysticism
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
G.K. ChestertonTags: reason poetry serenity faith mysticism
There is a certain mysticism in the Christian's affirmation of the physical universe. There is a confidence that whatever is discovered conforms with Jesus Christ and is a manifestation of His will.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.Tags: creation mysticism hedonism sovereignty-of-god
If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord.
G.K. ChestertonTags: cynicism mysticism sovereignty-of-god
Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.
Evelyn UnderhillTags: mysticism evelyn-underhill
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Meister EckhartTags: mysticism
I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.
An eternity of wisdom and life lies waiting for discovery by those who are willing to embark on the mystical adventure. All of our resources are within us. All we need is our heart, our mind and the will to be something better than we are.
Kim ChestneyTags: intuition mysticism transformation wisdom-inspirational kim-chestney
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