Mysticism

🇺🇸Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature

Western philosophy

1803–1882

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

🇺🇸Max Heindel

Literature

1865–1919

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

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

"And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened, I understood this Being and knew it more clearly than, by speech, reason, or sight, one can know anything that is knowable on earth"

🇬🇧William Dalrymple (historian)

Literature

b. 1965

"Dalrymple is British—Scottish, to be exact—but his controversial statements are more likely to concern the country's Mughal or British past. He is today India's most famous narrative historian."

🇬🇧Paul Brunton

Philosophy

1898–1981

"The Bhagavad Gita contains the mental quintessence and successful synthesis of the various systems of religion and philosophy it offers a unique epitome of the high culture of prehistoric India."

🇮🇹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."

🇬🇧Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Literature

Sufism

b. 1953

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