Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It must find ways and means of penetrating into the sphere of the spiritual, a domain which cannot be perceived with outer physical senses nor apprehended with the intellect which is bound to the brain.

When looking through the spiritual eye, or the third eye encased within the human mind, one can see vividly beyond the ken of human eyesight, beyond the material atom, and into the future, thereby transcending the limitations of time and space.

Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.

Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly. For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakeable remains.

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

See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.