Mysticism Quotes

Don't be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.

God is the soul of the universe.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

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

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.

God is as real as a station wagon.

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.

I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.
Pink dragonflies fall from the air
and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter.
Like the smile of a child separated
from his mother’s milk for the very first time.
-from poem Blood and Blossoms

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.