Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMysticism 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.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Myself I must remake.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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