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Walter Hilton: 11 Spiritual Quotes by the Christian Mystic

Walter Hilton was a English mystic in the 14th century. He is best known for his work "The Ladder of Perfection" and for being one of the first to write mystic theology in the English language. Walter Hilton was born in either 1340 or 1345, and seems to have studied...

25 Spiritual Quotes by Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen was a prominent German Christian mystic, polymath and abbess during the Middle Ages. She is also known as Saint Hildegard and is known for her visionary theology and her subsequent great influence on Christianity. Born in 1098 in Bingen, a city...

20 Spiritual Quotes by the Neoplatonists of the Ancient World

Derived from the thoughts of Plato, neoplatonism was a philosophical tradition that took its distinct form in Egypt through the thoughts of the 3rd century Alexandrian philosopher Ammonius Saccas, but reached its climax in the works of his student Plotinus, who was...

Ibn Arabi Quotes (Sufi Poetry)

Ibn Arabi was a Sufi philosopher, mystic poet who lived from 1165 to 1240. Born in Andalusia, Ibn Arabi is sometimes considered as "al-Shaykh al-Akbar", a title given to him as he was one of the most influential and greatest thinkers in Sufism, the mystery tradition...

Who’s Who in the Mystics Zoo

A spiritual guide to the mystical experience by an enlightened Hippopotamus Dedicated to the Beloved and my angelic mother This book was written in a series of spontaneous sessions through the free flowing of consciousness. I didn’t have any clear purpose with the...

Contemplations of a Mystic

Spiritual and mystical soliloquies on the dissolution of the separate self into the supreme This book was written for the lovers, the free spirits of the world and the ones that have felt the longing for the one true love for billions upon billions of years. This is...

Why You Can Never Become Spiritually Enlightened

You cannot become enlightened. Enlightenment is not something that you possess as an attribute or personal possession. Becoming is the anti-thesis of enlightenment, whereas it is the thesis of the natural world. The natural world is ever morphing, evolving and...

Canticle of the Sun by St. Francis of Assisi

Most High, all powerful, good Lord, Yours are the praises, the glory, the honor, and all blessing. To You alone, Most High, do they belong, and no man is worthy to mention Your name. Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother...

Mysticism, Creativity and the Power of Symbols

The goal of the mystical journey is to arrive at ones own timeless existential palace. It begins as an inward journey but later blooms into an all-directional & dimensional adventure into the heart of existence. The seeker of truth is one who strives after unity...

Who are the Mystics and What is Mysticism?

A mystic is a being that has traced back his or her subjective sentience (identity, intellect, thoughts, mind, ego, sense of separate self, mental/soul processes) to its source. The source which is the absolute subjective perceiver of all experience. In other words,...