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By Richard Hooper

The crucial Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is a treasury of rates and passages from the good Sufi mystics, Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Jews, and Christians in the course of the centuries.

This assortment, curated by means of spiritual student Richard Hooper, stresses the wonderful thing about non secular language and mystical event, together with thousands of entries from world's significant non secular traditions, the best poets, mystics, sages, and saints of all time.

Included are decisions from William Blake, Ramakrishna, Rumi, St. John of the go, Osho, Tagore, Chuang Tzu, and plenty of extra. the decisions are given context by way of the introductory essays by means of Hooper, which discover the Perennial Philosophy, the character of the paranormal adventure, and how of non-dualism.

The crucial Mystics, Poets, Saints, and Sages is a perfect reward in addition to a resource for day-by-day advice and aid, whatever the spiritual or sectarian affiliations.

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E. The evidence against her was her own book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, in which she was audacious enough to suggest a non-dualistic universe, and to describe how the soul could unite with the Divine. But without religion, Jesus, the Buddha, Saint Francis, and Mahatma Gandhi might never have graced this earth. Religions have always been the ferries that deliver to our shores the profound insights of humanity's spiritual giants. Since the mystical experience transcends religious dogma and allows one to have direct insight into the nature of Reality, we should not be surprised that the essential understanding of all true mystics is, in all the most important ways, identical.

Perception is the essence of mysticism, and that raises an important consideration. If we attain Enlightenment, the enlightened experience itself is, quite literally, subjective. This may account for the different ways mystics describe Ultimate Reality. It also appears that there are different stages and levels of Enlightenment. The Hindu's experience of Samadhi is described as a state of bliss, and doesn't sound quite like the Zen experience of Satori. And Zen Satori doesn't sound quite like the final Buddhist experience of Nirvana.

Mysticism is the realm of higher consciousness and altered reality. The All may be known only when the individual mystic—the ego-self—completely disappears, so all that remains is the One. Anyone who has lived long enough on this planet to observe history and human nature can easily be frustrated that religion—indeed, all human endeavors—has not succeeded in making the world what it could be. We can have sympathy for the mindset of the biblical author of Ecclesiastes who declared twenty-three hundred years ago that all human endeavors are, in the end, vanity.

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