776 Quotes About Mysticism

Sufism, emphasizing the personal experience of the divine, could be the leading inspiration that will bring the next wave of enlightened Islam into the next evolutionary development, just as mystic Christians could breathe new life into Christianity.

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

Spiritual progress is through the growing knowledge of the self as nothing and of the Godhead as all-embracing Reality. (Such knowledge, of course, is worthless if it is merely theoretical; to be effective, it must be realized as an immediate, intuitive experience and appropriately acted upon.)

Fear, worry, anxiety these form the central core of individualized selfhood. Fear cannot be got rid of by personal effort, but only by the ego's absorption in a cause greater than its own interests. Absorption in any cause will rid the mind of some of its fears; but only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it of all fear.

To think of God as mere Power, and not also, at the same time as Power, Love and Wisdom, comes quite naturally to the ordinary, unregenerate human mind. Only the totally selfless are in a position to know experimentally that, in spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already is well.

[G]ood is the separate self's conformity to, and finally annihilation in, the divine Ground which gives it being; evil, the intensification of separateness, the refusal to know that the Ground exists.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

[W]hen Christianity is mainly preoccupied with events in time, it is a 'revolutionary religion,' and [...] when, under mystical influences, it stresses the Eternal Gospel, of which the historical or pseudo-historical facts recorded in Scripture are but symbols, it becomes politically 'static' and 'reactionary.

Şimdi, sevgiyle tokuşturulan kadehlerin tınlamasını, dost bildiğimiz insanlarla yaptığımız sohbetleri, altun paraların şıngırtısını, bir güzelin şuh kahkahasını,  mal yüklü ticaret gemilerinin yelkenlerini şişiren rüzgârın uğultusunu, ilim öğrenmek için okuduğumuz kitapların sayfa hışırtılarını ve hatta, ölümsüzlüğün sırrı olan ab-ı hayatın şırıltısını unutalım ve burnumuza üflenen nefesi, vakti gelince aldığımız gibi, tertemiz bir nağme olarak sessizce teslim etmeye hazır olalım.