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The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything. Like the sun at noonday, mysticism explains everything else by the blaze of its own victorious invisibility. Detached intellectualism is (in the exact sense of a popular phrase) all moonshine; for it is light without heat, and it is secondary
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
remembrance of the smallness of your human personality in a world filled with figures.
Sonu Shamdasani • Lament of the Dead
by outgrowing the world.
Death may take man out of
the world but only wisdom
can take the world out
of the man.
Escaping From The World
The poets and sages have, indeed, been saying for centuries that success in this world is vanity.
Alan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Wisdom was the understanding of the source or cause of all things, and this could be secured only by raising the intellect to a point where it intuitively cognized the invisible manifesting outwardly through the visible, and thus became capable of bringing itself en rapport with the spirit of things rather than with their forms.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
our yearning for the mysteries,
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The High Priestess is the gateway to the unconscious.
Lisa Papez • Unlocking the Tarot
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.-Lao-Tzu