Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

Mysticism in literature

by A. N. Dhar

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

Tao te Ching

by 老子

The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

SIDDHARTHA, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, grew up together with his friend Govinda, the Brahmin's s...

The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure

by James Redfield

I drove up to the restaurant and parked, then leaned back in my seat to think for a moment.

Mysticism in English literature

by Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon

MYSTICISM is a term so irresponsibly applied in English that it has become the first duty of those who use it to explain...

Bhagavad-Gita

by Vyasa

Tell me, Sanjaya, what my sons and the sons of Pandu did, when they gathered on the sacred field of Kurukshetra eager fo...

Zanoni

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

AT Naples, in the latter half of the last century, a worthy artist, named Gaetano Pisani, lived and flourished.

The symbolist movement in literature

by Arthur Symons, Richard Ellmann

Camino de perfección [por] Santa Teresa de Jesús

by Teresa of Avila, E. Allison Peers

Of the reason which moved me to found this convent in such strict observance.

Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at...

by Julian of Norwich, Warrack, Grace Harriet, 1855-1932

Here is a vision shown by the goodness of God to a devout woman, and her name is Julian, who is a recluse at Norwich and...

Nacht van inkt

by Cornelia Funke

Hidden from History

by Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus

Earth power

by Scott Cunningham

The Moon glows mystically in the star-scattered sky as a lone figure moves down a deserted beach.

Existentialists and Mystics

by Iris Murdoch

Some great philosophers have been also great writers in the sense of great literary artists - I suppose the outstanding ...

Rumi

by Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī), Coleman Barks

Early Mystics in Turkish Literature

by Mehmed Fuad Koprulu

Mysticism in English Literature

by Caroline E.