mystic

is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.

A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor. Umberto Eco

is speaking the same language the world over, for they all come from the same country.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

is distinguished from the philosopher in this: where the philosopher guesses and argues from the dialectic of the schools, the mystic lives, looks, and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks... and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram 'impersonal and unattainable'the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.

is always speaking the same language while the theologians quarrel amongst themselves.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

is a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

is a person who hopes that science will one day overtake him.

is one who needs no eyes, for they don’t look at the world. Their heart is their eye.

Neither mystics nor saints need eyes; they don't look at the world. Their heart is their eye.

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