Walter Terence Stace Quote

The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive of them and serves to mark them off from all other kinds of experiences, is that they involve the apprehension of an ultimate nonsensuous unity in all things, a oneness or a One to which neither the sense nor the reason can penetrate.


The Teachings of the Mystics (1960), p. 14


The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive...

The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive...

The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive...

The most important, the central characteristic in which all fully developed mystical experiences agree, and which in the last analysis is definitive...