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Poets and Mystics have access to realms of perception that are usually denied to more conventional persons!!!

  At age-of-the-sage.org we fully accept that Poets and Mystics have perceived many unaccountable and mysterious insights !!!

  These insights can be related to profoundly important Enlightenment and Wisdom teachings about Human mind, body, and spirit !!!

 The Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the Poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

 To the humble He revealeth His secrets, and sweetly draweth and inviteth him to Himself.
 The humble man, having received reproach, maintaineth himself well enough in peace, because he is fixed in God and not in the world.
 Never think that thou hast made any progress till thou look upon thyself as inferior to all.

Thomas a Kempis
Of the Imitation of Christ Bk. 3, Ch. 4, v. 4

  The following Zen Buddhism related quotation conveys something of the way that the Mysticism that is central to several world religions maintains that Enlightenment is not "intellectual".

  A University Professor went to see Nan-in, a Zen Master, to find out more about Zen.
  As their meeting continued Nan-in was pouring Tea and continued to pour even though the cup was overflowing.
  The Professor cried. "Enough! No more will go in!"
  Nan-in replied "Like this cup you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

  The age-of-the-sage.org Web site features many pages that explore the ways in which the Mysticisms that lie at the heart of several world religions are virtually identical !!!

  Several other pages consider the profound insights that the Mystics, Poets and Philosophers have won for us in relation to the relationship between "spirituality" and the "wider world."