Saint Augustine Quotes

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen only by those who have eyes to see, these flakes of fire are embedded in the holy scriptures. There these tr.

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.

We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.

But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill