Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.