"The end of all spiritual experience is to feel the presence of One God or One all-pervading Consciousness everywhere. After this final experience, the individual transcends the barriers, the dos and don'ts of the ethnical religion he is born in. He becomes a universal man. No religion, no country, no sect, no book, no dogma can bind him anymore."
-Swami Jitatmananda, "Experiences of Sri Ramakrishna-Vivekananda", Streams of Yogic and Mystical Experiences
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"Each doctrine has its own philosophy and technique to attain the highest truth. All philosophies aim at the same goal - realization of the Absolute. A seeker is concerned with the attainment of the truth. He may follow any technique but the important thing is that he reaches the state of equality where he sees and experiences the Oneness of everything in the world." 
-Swami Muktananda , cited by Navjivan Rastogi, The Krama Tantricism of Kashmir
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"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
-William Butler Yeats
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"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of our existence."
- Nikola Tesla
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"Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead."
-Henry David Thoreau
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Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
-Jesus, Gospel of Thomas (v.3)
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"The cosmogony of the visible world, said Pythagoras, has led us to the history of the earth, and the latter to the mystery of the human soul. With it we touch the sanctuary of sanctuaries, the holy of holies. Once its consciousness aroused, the soul becomes for itself the most astonishing of sights. But even this consciousness is only the enlightened surface of its being, in which it suspects there to be dark and unfathomable abysses. In its unknown depths, the divine Psyche contemplates with fascinated look all lives and worlds, past and present, and the future joined to them by Eternity. "Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe of the gods." Such was the secret of the sages and initiates. To penetrate through this narrow door into the immensity of the invisible universe, let us awake in ourselves direct vision of the purified soul, and arm ourselves with the torch of intelligence, with the science of the sacred principles and numbers."
-Edouard Shure,  Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries
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"...this life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the 'whole'; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: 'Tat twam asi', this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, 'I am this whole world'."
-Erwin Schrodinger, My View of the World
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"...let us exhaust our powers of conception, and let the last object at which we can arrive be now that of our discourse. Perhaps we will think that here is the smallest point in nature. We will see therein a new abyss. This will paint for us not only the visible universe , but all that we can conceive of nature's immensity in the womb of this abridged atom. Let us see therein an infinity of universes, each of which has its firmament, its planets, its Earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each Earth animals, and in the last mites, in which we will find again all that the first had, finding still in these others the same thing without end and without cessation. Let us lose ourselves in wonders as amazing in the littleness as the others in their vastness. For who will not be astounded at the fact that our body, which a little while ago was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, or rather a whole, in respect of the nothingness which we cannot reach?
-Blaise Pascal, Pensees (Thoughts) 
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"Outer worship gives way to an inner form of contemplation which leads the initiate through stages of spiritual unfolding proceeding from the gross (Sthula) to the subtle (Sukshama) levels of consciousness. The internalization of the symbols as they become subtler is supported by the dynamics of the Yantra until culmination is reached when man, symbols and cosmos are united giving way to the supreme bliss which is defined as 'Resting in the Self'.
The body of the Sadhaka with its physical and psychological planes is considered to be one of the most powerful instruments of spiritual transformation. It is the physical substratum of divine latent energy. Only by awakening the divine energy within can an individual experience the hidden divinity."
-Wangu, Madhu Bazaz, A Goddess is Born; The Emergence of Khir Bhavani in Kashmir 
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"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which was are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism..."
"...for lacking the fellowship of the living, he inevitably draws upon the companionship of things that are not, or are no longer, living."
-H.P. Lovecraft, "The Tomb"

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