Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867, poet)
"Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material." (Le peintre de la vie moderne, 1863)
Annie Besant (1847-1933, activist)
"The soul grows by reincarnation in the bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God." (The Immediate Future, 1913)
Edgar Cayce (1877-1945, clairvoyant)
"It is the 'try' that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure." (AZQuotes.com)
Milton William Cooper (1943-2001, conspiracy theorist)
"Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right." (AZQuotes.com)
Benjamin Creme (1922-2016, mystic)
"Take sharing as your guide into the future. Release your brothers from the grip of poverty and pain. Open yourselves to the impulses of the soul and establish in your midst the will of God." (The Art of Co-operation, 2002)
Peter Deunov (1864-1944, mystic)
"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside." (AZQuotes.com)
Dion Fortune (1890-1946, occultist)
"We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them." (AZQuotes.com)
William Quan Judge (1851-1896, mystic)
"To the worldly man karma is a stern nemesis, to the spiritual man karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations." (AZQuotes.com)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986, spiritual figure)
"Just observe what you are. What you are is the fact: the fact that you are jealous, anxious, envious, brutal, demanding, violent. That is what you are. Look at it, be aware; don't shape it, don't guide it, don't deny it, don't have opinions of it. By looking at it without comparison, you observe; out of that observation, out of that awareness comes affection." (Collected Works, Vol. XIV)
Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934, writer)
"It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive." (AZQuotes.com)
Eliphas Levi (1810-1875, occultist)
"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard." (AZQuotes.com)
Nostradamus (1503-1566, astrologer)
"Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing, everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen." (AZQuotes.com)
Paracelsus (1493-1541, physician)
"Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God." (Quoted in Paracelsus - Doctor of Our Time by Frank Geert)
Albert Pike (1809-1891, lawyer)
"A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life." (Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1871)
Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688- 1772, mystic)
"A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship." (New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine, 1758)
Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017, literary theorist)
"Pride is not a wise counselor. People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world." (Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century, 2003)
Samuel Aun Weor (1917-1977, writer)
"Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts." (AZQuotes.com)
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007, writer)
"That's what guerrilla ontology is - breaking down this one-model view and giving people a multi-model perspective." (Searching for Cosmic Intelligence, interview with Jeffery Elliot, 1980)
