Sayings of Mystics

The great spiritual masters have given us valuable and inspiring descriptions of their inner worlds, including the ineffable bliss of samadhi. Follow the links below to read these insightful sayings of mystics:

• Abhinavagupta – On Fullness
• Anandamayi Ma – I Am the Same
• Angelus Silesius – God Cannot Be Grasped
• Bernadette Roberts – A Way of Seeing and Knowing
• Carl Jung – Thinking with the Heart
• Dionysius the Areopagite – Seeing God
• Edgar Allen Poe – Between Sleep and Waking
• Friedrich Nietzsche – On Inspiration
• Hadewijch – Overwhelmed by Love
• Jan Van Ruysbroeck – Simple Ineffability
• John Muir – A Glorious Conversion
• Lester Levenson – An Insight on Love
• Mahayana Buddhism – The Nature of Emptiness
• Meister Eckhart – About Cracking Parables
• Nisargadatta Maharaj — About Love
• Paramahansa Yogananda – Dissolution in a Universe of Light
• Plato – A Journey into Absolute Beauty
• Rabindranath Tagore – Poems from the Heart
• Ramakrishna – The Awakening of Kundalini through the Chakras
• Ramana Maharshi – About the First Self-Inquiry
• Ramana Maharshi – The Immortality of the Heart Center
• Saraha – The Royal Song
• St. Bernard of Clairvaux – Flowing into the Will of God
• St. John of the Cross – Everything and Nothing
• St. John of Ruysbroeck – The Incomprehensible Light
• Symeon the New Theologian – God is Light
• T.S. Eliot – O dark dark dark