According to their measure, they have fulfilled Keats’ aspiration, they do live a life in which the emphasis lies on sensation rather than on thought: for the state which he then struggled to describe was that ideal state of pure
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“To “purify” the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, “What does it mean to me?” learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.”
― Practical Mysticism
― Practical Mysticism
“suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“They are ever eager to assure us that man’s most sublime thoughts of the Transcendent are but a little better than his worst: that loving intuition is the only certain guide. “By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never.”
― Practical Mysticism
― Practical Mysticism
“Buddha suggested as much when he told his monks, “‘Actions exist, and also their consequences, but the person that acts does not.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“that “henceforth the heat of having shall never scorch him more.”
― Practical Mysticism
― Practical Mysticism
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