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.
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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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