Making sense of mysticism: Quotes and haiku

 

According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the meaning of mysticism is 'The experience of mystical union or direct communion with ultimate reality reported by mystics.' 

While the Cambridge Dictionary describes mysticism as 'The belief that there is hidden meaning in life or that each human being can unite with God.' 

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 'mysticism is the belief that one can unite with God through contemplation and self-surrender. It can also refer to the belief that one can gain spiritual knowledge through intuition or insight.'

 QUOTES.

• The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein 
• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein 
• Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome. ~Albert Schweitzer 
• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. ~ Meister Eckhart 
• The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero 
• The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton 
• There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are.... We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence. ~Frederick Lenz 

Haiku

Truth, wonder, mystery

Know and experience all these

For being true mystic

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Deep dwell on purpose

Unfold meaning of short life 

Live kind loving life!

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Be musing mystic

Hone mindset of wonder

Compassion, oneness

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Deem yourself divine

To experience divine love

For self and others

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To be true mystic

Hone humility, love, joy –

For their own value