Walter Terence Stace - Mysticism Quotes

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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.

Walter Terence Stace

The word "mysticism" is popularly used in a variety of loose and inaccurate ways. Sometimes anything is called "mystical" which is misty, foggy, vague, or sloppy. It is absurd that "mysticism" should be associated with what is "misty" because of the similar sound of the words. And there is nothing misty, foggy, vague, or sloppy about mysticism.

Walter Terence Stace

It is certainly the case that there can exist an atheistic mysticism, a mystical experience naked and not clothed in any religious garb.

Walter Terence Stace

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