It belongs to the nature of mysticism that it is timeless and appeals to no other authority than that of the truth which it carries within it. (Albert Schweitzer)

It belongs to the nature of mysticism that it is timeless and appeals to no other authority than that of the truth which it carries within it.

Albert Schweitzer

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