Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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