“There's a blaze of light in every word

It doesn't matter which you heard

The holy or the broken Hallelujah”

Leonard Cohen,Hallelujah

“Tenderly, I now touch all things, knowing one day we will part.”

St. John of the Cross, a 16th century mystical poet

“It helps, putting my hands on a pot, on a broom, in a wash pail.

I tried painting, but it was easier to fly slicing potatoes.”

“In my travels I spent time with a great yogi. Once he said to me, “Become so still you hear the blood flowing through your veins.”

One night as I sat in quiet, I seemed on the verge of entering a world inside so vast I know it is the source of all of us.”

Mirabai a 16th century Indian mystic and poet

“I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with such a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.”

Kabir, a 15th-16th century Indian mystic and poet

“One may never have heard the sacred word “Christ,” but be closer to God than a priest or nun.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Catholic theologian

“One day He did not leave after kissing me.”

Rabia of Basra, an 8th century Sufi mystic and saint

“How did those priests ever get so serious and preach all that gloom? I don’t think God tickled them yet. Beloved—hurry.”

St. Teresa of Avila, a 16th century saint and mystic

“You can see forever in a single drop of dew.

You can see that same forever if you look down deep inside of you.”

Dan Fogelberg Magic Every Moment

“We were born before the wind

Also, younger than the sun

'Ere the bonnie boat was won

As we sailed into the mystic

Hark now, hear the sailors cry

Smell the sea and feel the sky

Let your soul and spirit fly

Into the mystic

Van Morrison, Into the Mystic

“Every object, every creature, every man, woman and child has a soul and it is the destiny of all,

To see as God sees, to know as God knows, to feel as God feels, to Be as God Is.”

Meister Eckhart, 13th-14th century Catholic monk and mystic

“No one knows his name—a man who lives on the streets and walks around in rags.

Once I saw this man in a dream. He and God were constructing an extraordinary temple.”

St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th century Catholic saint and mystic

“The words Guru, Swami, Super Swami, Master, Teacher, Murshid, Yogi, Priest, most of those sporting such a title are just peacocks.

The litmus test is: hold them upside down over a cliff for a few hours. If they don’t wet their pants…maybe you found a real one.”

Kabir, a 15th-16th century Indian mystic and poet.

"I am," I said

To no one there

And no one heard at all

Not even the chair

“I am,” I cried

“I am,” said I

And I am lost and I can’t

Even say why

I Am…I Said by Neil Diamond

“Going to Walden is not so easy a thing as a green visit. It is the slow and difficult trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Going to Walden by Mary Oliver

“The result of prayer is life. Prayer irrigates the earth and life.”

St. Francis of Assisi, 13th century Catholic saint and mystic

“Our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.”

Dan Fogelberg Nexus

“When He touches me I clutch the sky’s sheet, the way other lovers do, the earth’s weave of clay. Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. Don’t let any prude tell you otherwise.”

St. Teresa of Avila, 16th century Christian mystic

“If He let go of my hand, I would weep so loudly, I would petition with all my might, I would cause so much trouble that I bet God would come to His (sic) senses and never do that again.”

Meister Eckhart, 13th-14th century Catholic mystic

“What a cruel act to be untruthful. Earthquakes happen in the heart that hears sounds that are amiss.

There are fields in the soul—lush organic meadows, though sounds and words that fall there can be, at times, a poison.

A plague is spread by one who cannot tell the truth.”