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I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jackass. But then, one day in 1965 or so, it was simply abolished. With a stroke of his pen, Pope John XXIII - who had such good ideas about other things - declared that liturgy would henceforth be in the vernacular language of the people. That was, effectively, the end of Latin chant. Then all those monks and nuns who had devoted hours and hours a day began to sicken and fall into depressions, but nobody noticed for a long time. Maybe, as I can well believe, the music toned up their systems in some mysterious way. Or perhaps chant really was a language that God understood. Faced with numerous liturgical scholas shrieking away in the new vernacular hymns, Divinity may have covered its ears and withdrawn, leaving the monks to pine. We parish musicians, illiterate in anything written after the 13th century, stumbled around trying to score liturgies for guitar and bongo drums, trying to make sense of texts like "Eat his body! Drink his blood!" It wasn't because the music got so bad that I quit going to Mass, but it certainly was the beginning of my doubts about papal infallibility.


Mary Rose O'Reilley


#music #mysticism #quakers #spirituality #music

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.


Antoine Fuqua


#i #joseph #just #my own #mysticism

I call this theory mystical pluralism because of its similarity to John Hick’s pluralist interpretation of religion. The theory is essentialist in both the therapeutic and epistemological senses described above. Its thesis is that mystical traditions initiate common transformative processes in the consciousness of mystics. Though mystical doctrines and practices may be quite different across traditions, they nevertheless function in parallel ways—they disrupt the processes of mind that maintain ordinary, egocentric experience and induce a structural transformation of consciousness. The essential characteristic of this transformation is an increasingly sensitized awareness/knowledge of Reality that manifests as (among other things) an enhanced sense of emotional well-being, an expanded locus of concern engendering greater compassion for others, an enhanced capacity to creatively negotiate one’s environment, and a greater capacity for aesthetic appreciation.


Randall Studstill


#religion #transformation-of-consciousness #experience

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.


Junius


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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.


Hans Hofmann


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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.


Muhammad Iqbal


#concepts #entity #experience #god #having

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.


Irvine Welsh


#mysticism #writing

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.


Elie Wiesel


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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.


Elie Wiesel


#close #does #except #go #knowledge

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.


Julia Cameron


#creativity #mysticism #art