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.
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
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Rabindranath Tagore
The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
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Lafcadio Hearn
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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Jalaluddin Rumi
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
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Peter Rollins
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol...
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Peter Rollins
More Quotes By Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You, " then that will be enough.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
