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Recommended Reading

  • Ecstasy, Understanding the Psychology of Joy
    By Robert Johnson
  • Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Hidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
    by Benjamin Blech, Roy Donlinr
  • The Survival of the Ancient Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art
    By Jean Seznec
  • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
    By Frances A. Yates
  • Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino
    Clement Salaman, Editor
  • Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love
    By Marsilio Ficino
    Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Sears Jayne
  • Gods and Heroes in Art
    By Lucia Impelluso
  • Marsilio Ficino
    Edited and Introduced by Angela Voss
  • The Western Esoteric Traditions
    By Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
  • The Planets Within
    By Thomas Moore
  • The Soul's Code
    By James Hillman
  • The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance
    By Joscelyn Godwin
  • Pagan Mysteries of the Renaissance: An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art
    by Edgar Wind

Memorable Quotes

  • Refer every joy and even pleasure back to the joy of the inner Self, and let every sorrow remind you that your home is not here, in the world of sensory experiences, but in the eternal joy of the soul.
    —Yogananda
  • I see these things with an intense joy, and while I observe, there is no observer, only a beauty almost like love. For an instant, I am absent, my self and my problems, my anxieties, my troubles; nothing but this wonder exists.
    —Krishnamurti
  • Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
    —Joseph Campbell
  • How can one see the beauty of a good soul? Withdraw into yourself and look. If you do not as yet see beauty within you, do as does the sculptor of a statue that is to be beautified: he cuts away here, he makes this line lighter, this other one purer, until he disengages beautiful lineaments in the marble. Do you this too. Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one radiance of beauty… Let each one therefore become godlike and beautiful who would contemplate the divine and beautiful.
    —Plotinus
  • With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different individuals and groups with different cultural heritages, having different dispositions and tastes. Each person has the right to choose whatever is most suitable, on the basis of a deep understanding of all others as brothers and sisters.
    —His Holiness the Dalai Lama