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Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect...more

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Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is the craving wh...more

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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own met...more

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The business and method of mysticism is love.

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Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life— compelled to pass on f...more

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the night of thought is the light of perception.

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Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of h...more

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As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world ...more