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"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."
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"I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light out of my system. I wanted the dark fecundity of nature, the deep well of the womb, silence, or else the lapping of the black waters of death. I wanted to be that night which the remorseless eye illuminated, a night diapered with stars and trailing comets. To be of night so frighteningly silent, so utterly incomprehensible and eloquent at the same time. Never more to speak or to listen or to think."

"A mystic is one who has dropped all dreams, who has thrown away this mirror of the mind and who looks directly into life, without any medium interfering. Then he sees the eternal progression, then in a single moment he sees all eternity, and in a single atom he can see the whole reflected."

"The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire."

"The inner emptiness is the door to God."

"I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth."

"The well of your soul will not experience the drought until in front of her will appear the moment of eternity to drink from the water of death."

"Pure-chit itself is the Absolute Supreme Soul (parmatma)."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."

"What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: 'I wish you luck.' I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more."
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