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Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive. — Idries Shah

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. — Florence Nightingale

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics. — Plato

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels. — James Redfield

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back;
but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them. — Ram Dass

Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith. — Amos Smith

God didn't come to fix anybody. He came to kill them and resurrect them from the dead. — John Crowder

A religion without mystics is a philosophy. — Quintilian

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. — Warren Zevon

It's the strange thing about you mystics, how often your little ecstasies wear a skirt. — John Updike

Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do. — Richard Dawkins

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily. — Madeleine L'Engle

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead. — Kathleen Norris

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant. — John Piper

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. — Sol LeWitt

All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics. — James Curcio

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. — Idries Shah

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. — Alan Watts

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics. — Karl Rahner

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying. — Anthony De Mello

As above in consciousness, so below in matter — Michael Sharp

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. — Anne Desclos

The people who know God well - mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr

Theology at its best doesn't seek to solve, but to behold. — Amos Smith

The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today. — Amos Smith

God is mystery, surpassing the senses and all knowledge, and yet God is at the core of our being. — Amos Smith

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart

The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law. — Tom Shadyac

All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk

Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face. — Peter Kreeft

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. — Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, — Ayn Rand

Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven. — St. John Climacus

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. — Rajneesh

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. — Booth Tarkington