Mystic

🇺🇸Max Heindel

Literature

1865–1919

"The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge."

🇮🇷Ruhollah Khomeini

Politics

1902–1989

"You were invigorated by mindfulness of God, migration from oneself to God—which is the greatest migration—migration from ego to the truth, and from this world to the unseen world."

🇫🇷Mirra Alfassa

Education

1878–1973

"With my inner consciousness I understood immediately; a few hours later the creation was gone … and from that moment we started anew on other bases."

🇮🇷Nur Ali Elahi

Philosophy

1895–1974

"Words of Faith: Prayers of Ostad Elahi, Publisher: Robert Laffont"

🇬🇧Abraham Isaac Kook

Religion

1865–1935

"The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it."

Nicholas Roerich

Philosophy

1874–1947

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

🇳🇱Hadewijch

Literature

"They who stand ready to content Love are also eternal and unfathomable. For their conversation is in heaven, and their souls follow everywhere their Beloved who is unfathomable"

Bernard of Clairvaux

Religion

1090–1153

"Our King is accused of treachery; it is said of him that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not."

🇵🇱Maximilian Kolbe

Literature

1894–1941

"Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force."

🇮🇹Bonaventure

Religion

1221–1274

"...Though His Passion sufficed for all, yet all would not profit from it, for some would be reprobate, hard-hearted, and impenitent."

Franz Bardon

alternative medicine

1909–1958

"A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth."

🇬🇧Dion Fortune

Literature

1890–1946

"Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers."

🇮🇹Francis of Assisi

Religion

1182–1226

"We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh, but, instead, we must be simple, humble and pure."

🇮🇳Rajneesh

Philosophy

Rajneesh movement

1931–1990

"When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be."

William Butler Yeats

Literature

Symbolism

1806–1862

"The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste."

🇮🇷Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani

963–1033

"Whom the Lord guides, the Path is shortened for him."

🇩🇪Meister Eckhart

Philosophy

1260–1328

"We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born."

Ruzbihan Baqli

Literature

1128–1209

"From the Throne to the earth is the creation of God Most High; everything but his existence is his action. He brought them into existence from pure non-being."

Sari al-Saqati

Sufism

"The worst punishment from God is the separation from Him."

Grigori Rasputin

Politics

1869–1916

"God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die."

🇮🇳Meera

Psychology

Vaishnavism

1498–1546

"The saint Mirabai is the most famous of the women saints of India and can be ranked among the foremost of the mystics of the world."

John Ruysbroeck

Literature

1293–1381

"In the deeps of his ground he knows and feels nothing, in soul or body, but a singular radiance with sensible well-being and all pervading savour."