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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. Gore Vidal

Holidays, relaxation, and the simple pleasure of life are as important for the mystic as they are for other people. Martin Israel

They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. The Bible, 2 Timothy 4:4

I see no reason why the devil should have all the good tunes. Rowland Hill Music is hateful and intolerable to the devil. I truly believe, and do not mind saying, that there is no art like music, next to theology. It is the only art, next to theology, that can calm the agitations of … Continue reading “MUSIC
AND THE DEVIL”

For there is no other mystery of God, except Christ. Augustine of Hippo The simple, absolute and immutable mysteries of the divine Truth are hidden in secret. For this darkness, though of deepest obscurity, is yet radiantly clear; and, though beyond touch and sight, it more than fills our unseeing minds with splendors of transcendent … Continue reading “MYSTERY”

Mysticism keeps men sane. G.K. Chesterton The dark night of the soul through which the soul passes on its way to the Divine Light. John of the Cross A most sublime and sweet knowledge of God and of His attributes overflows into the understanding from the contact of the attributes of God with the substance … Continue reading “MYSTICISM”

Christian mysticism is the attempt to realize in the thought and feeling the immanence of the temporal in the eternal and of the eternal in the temporal. Dean Inge

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. Edmund Burke Mourning which is according to God’s will is an anguished heart that passionately seeks what it thirsts for, and when it fails to attain it, pursues it diligently and follows behind it lamenting bitterly. John … Continue reading “MOURNING”

Music is for the soul what wind is for the ship, blowing her onwards in the direction in which she is steered. William Booth Music strikes in me a profound contemplation of the First Composer. Thomas Browne

The end justifies the means. Hermann Busenbaum