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And in the end it is because of mysticism that it is possible to say that “no man is an island” and that on the contrary every man is “a part of the main.”

— Walter Terence Stace

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Thus to say that God is ineffable is to say that no concepts apply to Him, and that He is without qualities.

The true religious doctrine is that the world is to be both denied and not to be denied.

The same character of revelation, which we find in poetry, attaches to mystical illumination, although here the revelation is always the divine.

The pure religious consciousness lies in a region which is forever beyond all proof or disproof.

Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.

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