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the heart of religion: that it is about mystical awe, an ineffable emotional experience of being in relation to what we consider divine.
Dacher Keltner • Awe
In the Christian mystical tradition one of the great texts is Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross, in which he talks about the periods of loneliness, fear, and doubt that one goes through after the initial awakenings into the light. Evagrius,
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“God is that reality whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”11
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
'vast, immeasurable sanctuary', and stressed the spiritual dimensions of memory. Augustine,
Barbara Misztal • Theories Of Social Remembering (Theorizing Society)
”The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” Only the Infinite can know the infinite.
A. W. Tozer • Essential Tozer Collection
The world of reason can be narrow and filled with dead ends, while a spiritual viewpoint is limitless and invites fantastic possibilities. The unseen world is boundless.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Mystical experience,” he told his learned listeners, “is experience of the archetypes”
Gary Lachman • Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings
that imminent feeling of sacredness, began to take place.