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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.


Evelyn Underhill


#experience

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion, but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life, that it is in this way that poetry becomes the greatest truth, by intensification, condensation of experience. While poetry is considered by most as illusion or delusion, it is the only reality, the moment when we are completely alive.


Anais Nin


#mystics #passion #poetry #truth #experience

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.


Jack Kerouac


#san-francisco #travel #mysticism

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.


Anthony de Mello


#knowledge #mysticism #unknowing #description

I am that is, my sword shall wield for me.


Brian Jacques


#mysticism

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.


Bruce Dickinson


#album cover #also #artwork #basis #blake

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.


Basil Bunting


#confusing #confusion #destructive #else #exhilaration

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


Antoine Fuqua


#i #joseph #just #my own #mysticism

In its quest to discover how the patterns of reality are organised, the story of modern science hints at a picture of a set of Chinese puzzle boxes, each one more intricately structured and wondrous than the last. Every time the final box appears to have been reached, a key has been found which has opened up another, revealing a new universe even more breathtakingly improbable in its conception. We are now forced to suspect that, for human reason, there is no last box, that in some deeply mysterious, virtually unfathomable, self-reflective way, every time we open a still smaller box, we are actually being brought closer to the box with which we started, the box which contains our own conscious experience of the world. This is why no theory of knowledge, no epistemology, can ever escape being consumed by its own self-generated paradoxes. And this is why we must consider the universe to be irredeemably mystical.


Bob Hamilton


#paradox #science #experience

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


Hans Hofmann


#comes #experience #mystic #realm #through






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