When love awakens the soul,
when it fills us with a pure joy,
then the love is real.
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Almighty God,
give me healing hands.
Millions are suffering.
Millions are sick.
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We may not come
to the knowing
of our own soul
until we first
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Lucidity seems to be an enormously
enhanced form of the true poetic
consciousness of „otherness" in natural things.
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I sought for the one whom my heart loves
My heart never even told me about it.
I feel the movements of the love of my heart.
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When the mystical instinct
awakes in someone,
the subject slowly discovers
certain tastes or qualities,
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Piercing through the labyrinth of branches
I see you shine in golden colours
on the blue mountains.
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Description Of The Mystical Trance By Plotinus 2 - -
Plotinus says in another part of the same treatise that Ecstasy is an expansion or accession, a desire of contact, rest, and a striving after ‚conjunction‘. All the phases of the contemplative experience seem to be summed up in these words above.
Ecstasy itself is a practical matter and has its root, not in reason, but in a deep seated passion for the Absolute which is far nearer to the mystic's love of God than to any intellectual curiosity, however sublime.
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The pure soul of the mystic
dwelling on higher levels of reality,
his eyes set on the transcendent world
is capable of combining
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The self is forcibly detached
from the imperfect
and the perfect is withdrawn
leaving behind an overwhelming
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