Mysticism Misunderstood Quotes & Sayings

I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole. — Jack Black

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. — Alexis Korner

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it's there. — Jason E. Hodges

The gangster is the man of the city,
with the city's language and knowledge,
with its queer and dishonest skills
and its terrible daring,
carrying his life in his hands like a placard,
like a club. — Robert Warshow

The old buzzard told me his life's story. I only remember that it was interesting and unusual; I've forgotten all the details. — Hermann Hesse

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens ... must be broken, or it will break us. — Thomas Jefferson

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich. — Rajneesh

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never once heard her say she gone leave Leroy, and Minny don't say things twice. When she do things, they done the first time. — Kathryn Stockett

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another. — William Gurnall

Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change. — Walter Wink