from Fourth Way writers and other mystical authors

P.D.Ouspensky: For us, meditation is imagination. Enough imagination is in us as it is, without adding meditation. We must try to awaken first. 

P.D.Ouspensky: Symbolism in ordinary art… is the product of a man’s dreams. In much of modern art, it is  is the product of his nightmares.

G. I. Gurdjieff: Every dispute within oneself should eventually lead to a new state within oneself.

G. I. Gurdjieff: What leads to self-remembering should never be put into words.

Alex Horn: Men number four… have to make daily efforts just to remain in good householder. You cannot imagine the super efforts that are required to wake up.

Rodney Collin: Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built only on the sand of personality,

Old Testament, Song of Solomon 5:2 – I sleep, but my heart waketh: it isthe voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me.

Saadi: There is a difference between he who holds his love and he who gazes expectantly at the door.

Theophan the Recluse: If the fruits of love are not in us, then our entire labour has been in vain.

Ibn Arabi: Let me witness the unity of the exterior and the interior.

Aristotle: For the unconscious, the cause of suffering always creates suffering. For the conscious, this is not a necessity.  

Rodney Collin: I think the sense of the complete unimportance of all one’s personal life and personal psychology is the key to entry into higher worlds.

T.S. Eliot: Who is that third who walks always beside you?

Hermes Trismegistus: A soul that has gained no knowledge of the things that are finds itself tossed among the passions. It carries the body as a burden, and is ruled by it instead of ruling it. On the other hand, he who has got knowledge is good and reverent; he is already divine.