Quote for the day – June 18

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Colin Wilson, mysticism, Outsider

“The Outsider develops, by immense spiritual effort, into the mystic. He does this by turning his life into a state of warfare, and living with the mental alertness that is necessary to warfare”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and The Rebel

Quote for the day – May 19

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Gerald Bullett, mysticism, nature, William Blake, William Wordsworth

“For Wordsworth, as for Blake, the universe was alive in all its parts and alive with one life. Nature was naturans, not naturata: a living organism suffused with that which in its higher manifestations we call mind or consciousness”.

Gerald Bullett, The English Mystics