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William Blake, the visionary English poet, painter, and mystic, filled his works with powerful spiritual and symbolic meaning. Here are some of his most mystic and thought-provoking quotes:
🔮 Mystic Quotes by William Blake
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite."
—from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
🧠 Meaning: Our limited perception hides the true, boundless nature of reality.
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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour."
—from Auguries of Innocence
🌌 A deeply mystical vision of the divine in the ordinary.
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"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
🕊️ For Blake, imagination is divine and central to spiritual truth.
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"He who binds to himself a joy / Does the winged life destroy; / But he who kisses the joy as it flies / Lives in eternity’s sunrise."
—from Eternity
✨ A reflection on detachment, impermanence, and transcendence.
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"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
—from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
☯️ A mystic embrace of duality as the engine of spiritual growth.
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"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
🔥 The mystic as a creator, not a follower.
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"The body is a portion of the soul discerned by the five senses."
🧘♂️ A radical mystical view of the body—not as separate from spirit, but a filtered view of it.
Would you like these in a printable quote card format or combined with his artwork for inspiration?
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