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Thus we see that mysticism naturally, though not necessarily, becomes intimately associated with whatever is the religion of the culture in which it appears.

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Mystics more often than not avoid direct reference to themselves.

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All religious thought and speech are through and through symbolic. And this fundamental insight is perhaps as old as religion itself.

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It has been said that man lives by truth, and that the truth will make us free. Nearly the opposite seems to me to be the case. Mankind has managed to live only by means of lies, and the truth may very well destroy us.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Walter Terence Stace

Walter Terence Stace
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Born: November 17, 1886
Died: August 2, 1967 (aged 80)
Bio: Walter Terence Stace was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism.
Known for:
  1. Mysticism and philosophy (1960)
  2. A critical history of Greek philosophy (1920)
  3. The concept of morals (1937)
  4. The philosophy of Hegel (1924)
  5. Religion and the modern mind (1952)
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