Mystics Quotes

• Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

  

  Plato
  • Mystics
  • Bearers

• The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity for creation is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

  

  Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Mystics

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Despise
  • Superficial
  • Mystics

• The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Experience
  • Silence
  • Talking

• I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Caring
  • Possessions
  • Disenfranchised

• For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.

  

  Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
  • Knowledge
  • Technologies
  • Priests

• Therefore it is the law of the mystics to see all things, to experience all things, either of heaven or earth, and yet to say little; for the souls incapable of understanding the possibility of their reach will ridicule them.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Law